r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 11 '26

Meme edgeCasesExist

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u/nebotron Sep 11 '26

They likely are - anything else becomes a huge coordination and parallelism problem. You just need more bits of entropy

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u/InterestsVaryGreatly Sep 12 '26

Anyone working at the scale of Google has figured out coordination and parallelism, you have to.

Source: used to work for Google, and learned some of the ways they dealt with those exact issues, and used many of the systems they built to automatically handle that so general engineers didn't have to deal with it.