The distributed systems course, designed just for you, comprehensively covers the practitioner’s point of view on modern complex software systems.
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167 Lessons
9h 30min
Certificate of Completion
The distributed systems course, designed just for you, comprehensively covers the practitioner’s point of view on modern complex software systems.
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Course Content
Course Overview
This course is about establishing the basic principles of distributed systems. It explains the scope of their functionality by discussing what they can and cannot achieve. It also covers the basic algorithms and protocols of distributed systems through easy-to-follow examples and diagrams that illustrate the thinking behind some design decisions and expand on how they can be practiced. This course also discusses some of the issues that might arise when doing so, eliminates confusion around some terms (e.g.,...Show More
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Distributed Systems
What You'll Learn
Learn some of the complexities inherent in distributed systems.
Learn the key design problems in distributed systems.
Learn the key algorithms used in distributed systems.
Study the design of some real-life distributed systems.
Establish the concepts every system designer needs to know for efficient design of large-scale systems.
Learn the concepts software engineers need to know to make good use of distributed systems.
What You'll Learn
Learn some of the complexities inherent in distributed systems.
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Before Getting Started
This chapter introduces the distributed systems course focusing on key concepts, basic principles, and algorithms for beginners.
The chapter explores the consensus problem in distributed systems, focusing on algorithms like Paxos and Raft, their complexities, and practical applications.
This chapter emphasizes critical security concerns in distributed systems, focusing on authentication, confidentiality, and integrity to protect against malicious threats.
The chapter introduces various distributed systems, focusing on their applications and design evolution, while referencing previous learned principles.
The chapter explores distributed coordination services, focusing on Zookeeper's structure, guarantees, and its efficient protocol for managing distributed systems.
This chapter covers distributed data stores like BigTable, HBase, Cassandra, Spanner, and FaunaDB, including their architectures and consistency models.
The chapter explores Corda's distributed ledger architecture, data model, compatibility, and its mechanism for ensuring secure, trustworthy transactions.
This chapter discusses various data exchange techniques in distributed systems encompassing serialization, communication types, models and their tradeoffs.
This chapter teaches distributed locking, including leases and fencing techniques, and preventing safety risks to ensure fault tolerance and consistency.
The chapter highlights the importance of backwards compatibility in distributed systems, emphasizing techniques for effective maintenance during updates.
The chapter summarizes the essential aspects of distributed systems, emphasizing practical applications, key concepts, and further exploration opportunities.
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