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synctext 6y ago
More gentle introduction to timeless concepts that stood the test of times. Material from a university master course on distributed systems engineering. We developed our own university material in .ipynb format at Github. Should give you the basics in 5 days. Applies distributed systems theory in 5 steps. Most improvements in past decade are not due to hardware improvement, but algorithm and tooling advances I believe. - Distributed systems. Overlays and communication network. Introduction to simulation framework https://github.com/grimadas/BlockchainEngineering/blob/master/01_Intro_To_Distributed_Systems.ipynb https://github.com/grimadas/BlockchainEngineering/blob/maste... - Gossip. Convergence of the transactions, information https://github.com/grimadas/BlockchainEngineering/blob/master/02_Gossip_Services.ipynb https://github.com/grimadas/BlockchainEngineering/blob/maste... - Faults in distributed systems: crashes and disruptions https://github.com/grimadas/BlockchainEngineering/blob/master/03_Faults.ipynb https://github.com/grimadas/BlockchainEngineering/blob/maste... - Malicious nodes, adversary model https://github.com/grimadas/BlockchainEngineering/blob/master/04_Byzantine.ipynb https://github.com/grimadas/BlockchainEngineering/blob/maste... - Consensus and agreement despite malicious nodes https://github.com/grimadas/BlockchainEngineering/blob/master/05_Consensus.ipynb https://github.com/grimadas/BlockchainEngineering/blob/maste...
hugofirth 6y ago
I couldn't agree more about curiosity mode (I'm going to use that phrase liberally). Despite reading papers for many years, I rarely go in cold. I browse blog posts and twitter, ask myself a series of questions, then try to find/read papers to answer them. Of course this only leads to more questions, and so the journey continues. I also agree with the recommendations for "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" and "Database Internals". Though, having read the latter for a book club at $employer, I felt it served better as a sort of "index for the space" for people who already had some DB experience, rather a true introduction.
mandeepj 6y ago
> Another great resource there is Twitter: following distributed systems practitioners and researchers, and seeing what they tweet about. What's your twitter handle?