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Distributed Systems

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Overview

Accompanying lecture notes: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2122/ConcDisSys/dist-sys-notes.pdf

These videos form an 8-lecture series on distributed systems, given as part of the undergraduate computer science course at the University of Cambridge.

It is preceded by an 8-lecture course on concurrent systems for which videos are not publicly available, but slides can be found on the course web page: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2122/ConcDisSys/materials.html

 

Syllabus

Distributed Systems 1.1: Introduction.
Distributed Systems 1.2: Computer networking.
Distributed Systems 1.3: RPC (Remote Procedure Call).
Distributed Systems 2.1: The two generals problem.
Distributed Systems 2.2: The Byzantine generals problem.
Distributed Systems 2.3: System models.
Distributed Systems 2.4: Fault tolerance.
Distributed Systems 3.1: Physical time.
Distributed Systems 3.2: Clock synchronisation.
Distributed Systems 3.3: Causality and happens-before.
Distributed Systems 4.1: Logical time.
Distributed Systems 4.2: Broadcast ordering.
Distributed Systems 4.3: Broadcast algorithms.
Distributed Systems 5.1: Replication.
Distributed Systems 5.2: Quorums.
Distributed Systems 5.3: State machine replication.
Distributed Systems 6.1: Consensus.
Distributed Systems 6.2: Raft.
Distributed Systems 7.1: Two-phase commit.
Distributed Systems 7.2: Linearizability.
Distributed Systems 7.3: Eventual consistency.
Distributed Systems 8.1: Collaboration software.
Distributed Systems 8.2: Google's Spanner.

Taught by

Martin Kleppmann

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4.7 rating, based on 3 Class Central reviews

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    Sundas Asif
    A good course for beginners, I learned my initial concepts of distributed systems. a 7 hours course did not get bore
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    Anjana K H
    While sharing feedback can be thought-provoking, there are several modes to make it engaging in the process, with a few insights on how a student can prepare feedback that’s accepted, regardless of its nature.Schools provide an environment that has the potential to assist growth. A simple process of feedback from the students can help in ensuring the same. A personalized and politely framed response often works since it makes the teacher receptive and aware; at the same time, it gives some room for improvement if the student points out. Although there are plenty of teacher-parent communication apps, personalized feedback from the students works best!
  • Hiram Eduardo Galicia Luna
    Great explanation on clock synchronization and causality. Algorithms get a lot clearer with diagrams. Would be good to have more diagrams for Raft algorithm, one gets a little bit lost in the middle. I cannot imagine what Paxos looks like. Great course all in all!
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