PingCAP Talent Plan: Courses on writing distributed systems in Go and Rust

On a related topic, what are other's favorite learning resources for applied distributed systems?

just use Erlang/BEAM[0]. I love Go but it's a poor[1] tool for building truly resilient distributed systems. the workaround suggested by F Campoy seems to be to wrap K8 around go to make it more like BEAM (see second video below ...)

[0] Erik Stenman - BEAM: What Makes Erlang BEAM - Code Mesh 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FonRzASOkZE

[1] GOTO 2018 • The Robustness of Go • Francesc Campoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScE9TnoWltA&t=1437s

So many languages to learn and so little time

Really fascinated that this material and my book--well one chapter of it--both cover implementing the Bitcast storage backend. It looks like I picked my example projects well :)

I would be curious to know if this is the best way to learn a technical skill using a course in github?

Are there other variations of using github for a course?

Links in README of the go repo are broken, is rust your primary language?

I've only looked at the first project in test-plan/rust, but it clearly contradicts the description in project.md. It should be virtually empty, with only tests and the student is supposed to write all the code needed for the tests to pass. But it actually contains all the needed code, it compiles and all tests are green. I don't quite get it, what's the "learning" part? Just looking at the code and trying to understand it?