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Is there anything similar that covers other fundamental and common task such as I/O,networking, json, xml, webservice, string manipulation and so on? Or in other words what today is considered as batch processing/system integration?

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for distributed systems, the assignments from https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/ are fantastic. reading material tool, if you want to study and not just do

UX seems to create an insane volume of different ways for doing the very same thing. In other areas of software engineering you just look at the standard library or commonly used libraries and that's enough. I would imagine that's caused by lack of "science" in the process, in the sense that you can't really measure things.

I am trying to imagine how many syscalls would the Linux kernel have if it was designed like the web ecosystem. And more importantly how many of them would stop working after just 1-2 years ...

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