A Decade Later: Distributed Systems and ML Remain the Ultimate Focus
yenkel · x · 2026-08-12
Reflecting on advice from a Microsoft internship manager 10 years ago, the author notes that the recommendation to focus on distributed systems at scale and machine learning was incredibly prescient. Now, 12 years later, the author is excited to dive back into learning ML for new product research ideas, showing that the core tech focus remains unchanged.
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