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Text and reference books are free at the library.

You don’t need hardware to learn. Sure it helps but you can learn from a book and pen and paper exercises.



I disagree. Most of what I've learned about systems comes from debugging the weird issues that only happen on real systems, especially real hardware. The book knowledge is like, 20-30% of it.


Agreed, I don't think I'd hire a datacenter engineer whose experience consisted of reading books and doing "pen and paper exercises".




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