Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning distributed systems?

Posted by rsa on Sunday October 23, 2011 @02:26AM
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How did you become proficient in distributed systems ? Please provide any books/papers/tutorials/videos that you used in learning distributed systems to implement large scale systems. Appreciate your responses.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning distrib... by robotresearcher on Sunday October 23, 2011 @01:38PM (#3146710)

If you read one paper, make it Lamport's "Clocks" paper. It's a landmark in distributed systems, and a fine example of a deep paper in CS. Exellent homework for anyone!

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vaughan/teaching/431/papers/lamport78....

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Re:Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning distrib... by bankim on Monday October 24, 2011 @04:17PM (#3151385)

Following Quora question has great responses http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-seminal-papers-in-distribu...

More readings http://bytepawn.com/readings-in-distributed-systems/

Recommended text book Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (5th Edition) by George Coulouris http://amzn.com/0132143011

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Re:Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning distrib... by ericflo on Sunday October 23, 2011 @03:28AM (#3145483)

By far the best introduction, from the few that I've read, is Amazon's Dynamo: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.h...

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Re:Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning distrib... by rsa on Sunday October 23, 2011 @05:38PM (#3147342)

Thanks for the link. Awesome paper.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning distrib... by benkant on Sunday October 23, 2011 @07:18AM (#3145838)

There's a decent collection of resources at Google Code University:

http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/index.html

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