Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 1: Introduction on HackerTube: recommended by 5 Hacker News commenters across 6 separate months, 2020–2025.
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Open on YouTubeThe 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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bigmutantFeb 2025Recommends
Good resources for understanding Distributed Systems: - MIT course with Robert Morris (of Morris Worm fame): ▶ this 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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avinasshAug 2023Recommends
Intro to Database Systems by Andy Pavlo - [link] MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems by Robert Morris - ▶ this video Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) - [link] Crafting Interpreters - [link]
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avinasshApr 2023Recommends
Intro to Database Systems by Andy Pavlo - [link] MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems by Robert Morris - ▶ this 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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uytJun 2021Recommends
Not from stanford but I enjoyed these: MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems ▶ this video CMU The Databaseology Lectures [link] You essentially learn systems by looking at lots and lots of examples of how good real world systems are designed.
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yes_but_noFeb 2021Recommends
Not a book nor a paper, but MIT has published their recent Distr. Systems lectures[0] on youtube. Haven't finished it yet but it touches on papers that stood the test of times. [0] ▶ this video
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taudeDec 2020Recommends
MIT online trainig has this great YouTube playlist on distributed systems, with one of the lectures being on RAFT [1,2,3]. The entire playlist [4] is probably worth your time, though. [1] Intro [link] [2] Part I: [link] [3] Part II [link] [4] Playlist for the course: ▶ this video
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whbrownNov 2020Cites it
Web backend work at scale is all about building and maintaining distributed systems. Just consider the company where Go was designed ... And indeed, it's still a language of choice for teaching systems design[1]. [1] MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems - ▶ this video
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