Any successful project requires two things: by Nathan Marz

• It solves a useful problem

• You are able to convince a significant number of people that your project is the best solution to their problem

Know basic building blocks: Not just their interfaces, but understand their implementations (at least at a high level)

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Web Server (C)

• Nginx

• uWSGI

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Python related

• Tornado

• Gevent

• Flask

• Django

• Jinja2

• SQLALchemy

• Celery

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Java related

• Spring Cloud

• Netty

• Hystrix

• Apache Ignite

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• gRPC

• Docker

• Kubernetes

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Version Control System

• Git

Further Readings

• The Architecture of Open Source Applications