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Honestly , this is just the first episode

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. I'm just going to be talking about who I am

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and why I'm doing this , not so much

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the deep stuff . So skip

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this episode if you want to hear more technical

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stuff , great

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. So my name is Benny Kitchell . If you've

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never heard of me , you were not alone in that fact . I'm

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just a senior engineer like

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many , many others , and

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I'm just a guy . I'm no one famous . I

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haven't built any big

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grand systems or anything of that nature

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. Instead , I'm just a guy who's

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curious , who wants to learn more about

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system design and

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talk to you guys about system design and hopefully

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get better at it and help

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others get better at it . At

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the end of the day , the

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most important part of this podcast is just

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to share knowledge and be

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the best free resource

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site that you can find for

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system design knowledge and how

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to scale systems properly . For

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the beginning part of the

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podcast life , I'm going to be focusing

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on just things that I know

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pretty well in terms of just

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scaling systems and researching

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other things that I

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may not know and get better at those

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things , Mostly

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just talking about the

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different points of the system , how to scale it properly

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, some of the roadblocks you might hit

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and ways to avoid them , and

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also just things that might

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make your life easier After

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that , once we run out of topics , in that

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I would like to bring on people

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who have built these

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big grand systems and talk to them and

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get picked their mind about

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how they built their systems , the roadblocks that they may have hit and

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, again , ways that we

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can get better

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as architects and building

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these systems by basically just

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using each other and leveraging each other's

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knowledge . I'm

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hopeful in the future that we can break

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more into talking about interviews

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and talk about what

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makes them so interesting . I think one

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of the most interesting parts about system design

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interviews for me is that there's

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no one right answer , I

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guess . So building a

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system is sort of different from engineering

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in the concept that it's

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just sort of an art and it's sort

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of free flowing , where it's like a lot of us

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engineers which

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some may argue that Writing

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code can be an art , but I would argue that

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you know it

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still has a lot of structure and system

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design has a lot of , you

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know , free-flowing parts and can

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make things different

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depending on who's building it , while still

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also being correct . I

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guess that the end goal is just building a

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system that's scalable and handles the load

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, regardless of the tools that you

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use . Yeah , so , starting

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off , I'm probably going to be talking about database

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scaling and sort of the different parts

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of databases indexes

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, you know , cache

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, the different cache concepts

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, and then also talking about

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like sharding and

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things like that . After

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that I don't really have a game

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plan for which thing to go into . I

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do have a poll up on the Patreon . That

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is , you know it's a dollar but

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you know , just to sort of give back to anyone who's

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donating to the Patreon . But

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the next couple of things we could talk

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about is something like encoding or messaging , cues

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or load balancing concepts or

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you know , basically any sort of strategies

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just to scale the system . Whatever you guys

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want to listen to , I'm down for actually

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talking about and researching . Yeah

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, so more about

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me . I've been writing

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code for about a decade now . I've been a senior

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engineer for about five years . I

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have been all over the place in terms of

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startups and

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, you know , just trying to cut my teeth

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and learn from the people that

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are above me . And yeah , I'm

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hoping that this podcast will

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sort of act as that for the

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people that are listening and hopefully

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you guys come out of this

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you know better engineers , better architects , or

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maybe you just learn a few things . That's

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okay with me too , so

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, yeah , so , off the bat , I'm

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going to work on creating a Discord

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server in the near future . It's

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gonna be totally free , where we can just

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all gather and talk about

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knowledge and , you know , again , be

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that sort of source where you know we can ask

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questions and not feel judgment

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or feel ashamed , you know , asking

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our

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higher ups or something like that , or feel stupid

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. I mean posture syndrome . It's a great

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thing . But yeah , at the end of the

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day , I just , you know , I want

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to make this a very nice free

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resource that is very

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easy to come into at an

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intermediate engineering level and

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just grow more as

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you listen . Yeah

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, so , other than engineering

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, I really enjoy music , pretty

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much every kind of music you can think of

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, and yes , I mean that I mean

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like William Anya

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Bohr . Check

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them out if you don't know them . So

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, yeah , so just music from all over . And

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other than that , I've been getting into

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woodworking just to have

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something to do that doesn't involve my brain

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and instead involves my hands , and I can sort

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of turn my brain off and , you know

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, build things terribly and

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not , you know , pay huge

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consequences for it , I guess . Yeah

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, so , other than that , that's pretty much

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it . Again , a short

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little intro for you guys to get

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to know me and get to know who

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I am and why I'm doing this . Yeah

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, at the end of the day , I just hope

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I can help people learn and I hope

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I can help myself . You know , grow

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and be better at designing

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systems overall . And

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even if I , you know , help one

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person just understand this better

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, or help 100 people , you

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know , get a promotion or get a job offer

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or something like that , then you

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know I'm going to be stoked on that . So

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always

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feel free to reach out to me learn

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system design pod at gmailcom

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If you have any questions or or

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anything like that . I also

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have again , I mentioned before Patreon

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, patreoncom slash , learn system design

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. I'm only charging a dollar if

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you just want to talk or

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, you know , vote on what I'm going to

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be talking about next . Other

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than that , I'm going to be creating the Discord server

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sometime in the next few weeks and

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I'll also put that in the episodes

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and I'll announce that again . You

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know as many channels as I can

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grow and , and you

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know , sort of supply and

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have people that

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can join and discuss things

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and be better at things . That's

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what I'm hoping to do . Other

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than that , I the next episode is

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coming out February 27th

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, which is this upcoming

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Tuesday , and I hope

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you drop in and listen . I'm very excited

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to be doing this and I'm very excited to

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you know , be a part

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of this and , and you know

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, create this little community . So

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, that being said , many casual scaling down

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yeah

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.