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Lecture 1: Introduction

MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems · 924.1K views · 2020-02-06 · 1:19:35

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The opening lecture of MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems (Spring 2020), introducing the course and core challenges of distributed systems. It begins a playlist that goes on to cover Raft and other consensus papers in Go.

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bigmutant · 2025-02 · Recommendation

Good resources for understanding Distributed Systems: - MIT course with Robert Morris (of Morris Worm fame): [VIDEO] - Martin Kleppmann (author of DDIA): [LINK] If you can work through the above (and DDIA), you'll have a solid understanding of the issues in Distributed System, like Consensus, Causality, Split Brain, etc. You'll also gain a critical eye of Cloud Services and be able to articulate their drawbacks (ex: did you know that replication to DynamoDB Secondary Indexes is eventually consistent? What effects can that have on your applications?)

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avinassh · 2023-08 · Recommendation

Intro to Database Systems by Andy Pavlo - [LINK] MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems by Robert Morris - [VIDEO] Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) - [LINK] Crafting Interpreters - [LINK]

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avinassh · 2023-04 · Recommendation

Intro to Database Systems by Andy Pavlo - [LINK] MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems by Robert Morris - [VIDEO] Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) - [LINK] Crafting Interpreters - [LINK] > What made it so special these break down really complex topics and make the concepts approachable. As a noob, I learned a lot from these.

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