Being able to implement a working 2PC makes you a distributed systems programmer...

		tptacek on March 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How did you become a hardcore back-end dev... Being able to implement a working 2PC makes you a distributed systems programmer. It's not a piece of trivia. It won't take you a month to learn these things, but with commit protocols in particular, you have to implement and test them to really grok them.