Ok, I should have renamed it from the original title given by the author to "Excellent List of Distributed Systems and Relevant CS Courses With Good Lecture Not

Ok, I should have renamed it from the original title given by the author to "Excellent List of Distributed Systems and Relevant CS Courses With Good Lecture Notes, Assembled by a University of Cambridge PhD in Mobile Distributed Systems, Zookeeper Committer and a Glorious Systems Engineer Who Lives and Breathes Distributed Systems at Cloudera" to get less upvotes. Just read the rest of his blog. This is not a trivial list of references that you can compile by googling without thorough understanding of the subject matter, trust me, I've been digging this field for too long [1] Alternatively you can ask hundreds of people who re-tweeted this link[2], bookmarked it on their Delicious [3], or those who study it now, why did they think it was good. Look at their profiles, what percentage of them are dumb link-followers? Or simply try to compile and post a list of courses with the same title and see how many upvotes/retweets/bookmarks it gets and how quickly it disappears from the front page if it gets there in the first place. HN users are largely linkbait-averse, that's what I like about this community. [1] http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-resources-for-learning-about-distributed-computing http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-resources-for-learni... [2] http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%22advanced%20computer%20science%20courses%22 http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%22advanced%20computer... [3] http://www.delicious.com/url/6c0121386126295cd80dc3da665267ba http://www.delicious.com/url/6c0121386126295cd80dc3da665267b...