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Ask HN: Learn Distributed Systems Interactively
Hi HN,
TLDR: What are the interactive tools to learn distributed systems?
I have been trying to learn distributed systems by reading papers, blogs, and open-source docs. Every time it feels I haven't grokked the fundamental concepts.
For no particular reasons, I have failed finish any book or complete an online courses on the topic.
So, I want to explore different approach to learn. For example, a visual or interactive tool like pythontutor.com
Thanks
- harveytoro 6y agoRaft has a visualisation that you can interact with to understand it better https://raft.github.io/ https://raft.github.io/ Also might be worth checking out https://github.com/theanalyst/awesome-distributed-systems https://github.com/theanalyst/awesome-distributed-systems not sure if any of these resources are interactive though.
- brudgers 6y agoErlang. Specifically, Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World by Joe Armstrong who designed Erlang for Ericisson. Whether or not Erlang is the right language for a particular distributed job, Erlang is a message passing system and messages are the logical construct by which any distributed system communicates among its parts. Whether they are called messages or not. With a REPL and hot code swapping and remote launching Erlang is interactive at production scales and on a laptop.