Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms by Tannenbaum is a classic textbook. It's considered pretty dry though. I recommend strongly MIT's Distributed Sy

Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms by Tannenbaum is a classic textbook. It's considered pretty dry though. I recommend strongly MIT's Distributed Systems course, both for the lectures and the labs. See http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824 http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824 As a bonus, the labs (in Go) give you invaluable hands-on knowledge.