I'm not sure how it would read to someone who hasn't been previously reading anything on the subject, but I like aphyr's notes on a two day course on distribute

I'm not sure how it would read to someone who hasn't been previously reading anything on the subject, but I like aphyr's notes on a two day course on distributed systems as a high level overview of the topics involved: https://github.com/aphyr/distsys-class https://github.com/aphyr/distsys-class.