New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How can I gain some real distributed systems experience outside work?

Ask HN: How can I gain some real distributed systems experience outside work?
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Current work doesn't have such scale and all the challenges that go with it. I could cook up some projects I suppose, and flood it with dummy data. Just curious if there are any better ideas?