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The lesson here is not to never develop from scratch. In fact it may be faster and safer to do so than to vet all of the open source junk that modern ByteByteGo-system-designers think they need. TigerBeetle and Jepsen-proof-engineering are paths to dig down here, along with basic knowledge of computer number storage.

The lesson for me here is that there is no substitute for knowing or caring about what you're doing. Dancing cents don't happen when eng cared about correctness in the first place. I feel like I just read a college freshman explaining how there's no possible way they could have passed their first exam. Better yet he's here to sell us on his thought leadership without ever explaining why he failed the first exam.




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