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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." -- Aristotle

A really nice Internet moment happened in the HackerNews thread Disqus: Scaling the World’s Largest Django Application, when David Kitchen crafted an awesome response to a question about how you learn to build scalable systems. It's so good I thought I would reproduce it here.

Question: asked by grovulent:

Not like this is a problem I have to worry about. But where on earth does one learn this stuff? The talk is useful - as an overview of what they use - but I know nothing of how to implement a single step.

Answer: answered by David Kitchen of buro9:


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