Distributed Systems: A free online class

I expected to somewhere find at least a reference to the "fallacies of distributed computing" [1]. Looked into topic "how systems fail - what could go wrong".

Was surprised by the unstructured approach of a) (in the video) rambling down a list of personally encountered errors and b) (on the slides) presenting a messy picture containing the items of said list.

Together with the fact that the slides seem to have had no real update since 2016, i consider myself not part of the target audience and would not recommend this online class.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...

Re: Distributed Systems: A free online class

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Post by snidane » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 9:21 AM UTC

Btw. there is a Distributed Systems lecture series by MIT from Spring 2020.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbs...

Re: Distributed Systems: A free online class

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Post by lynxaegon » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 9:51 AM UTC

snidane wrote: post #5

Btw. there is a Distributed Systems lecture series by MIT from Spring 2020. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbs...

Oh! Thank you for this one. I was really searching for something like this from MIT :)

Re: Distributed Systems: A free online class

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Post by ashishmax31 » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 10:27 AM UTC

snidane wrote: post #5

Btw. there is a Distributed Systems lecture series by MIT from Spring 2020. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbs...

Thank you so much. I don't see many of these courses listed on youtube in their official mit ocw website. I wonder why..

Re: Distributed Systems: A free online class

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Post by shortlived » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 10:51 AM UTC

jand wrote: post #4

Tectorial wrote: post #2

Can somebody vote for the quality of this course?

Just because you asked "vote" and not "vouch": I expected to somewhere find at least a reference to the "fallacies of distributed computing" [1]. Looked into topic "how systems fail - what could go wrong". Was surprised by the unstructured approach of a) (in the video) rambling down a list of personally encountered errors and b) (on the slides) presenting a messy picture containing the items of said list. Together wi…

> presenting a messy picture containing the items of said list.

It felt like a way to show the chaos factor in failures.

Re: Distributed Systems: A free online class

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Post by pragnesh » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 12:25 PM UTC

snidane wrote: post #5

Btw. there is a Distributed Systems lecture series by MIT from Spring 2020. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbs...

Two more Distributed course link available on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNPUF5QyWU8O0Wd8QDh9K...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKd45zvjcDFUEv_ohr_H...

Re: Distributed Systems: A free online class

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Post by roperzh » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 12:30 PM UTC

snidane wrote: post #5

Btw. there is a Distributed Systems lecture series by MIT from Spring 2020. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbs...

yes! thank you for sharing! I have found this link after posting, and it's great.

Another promising resource I've found is Martin Kleppmann's "Distributed Systems Lecture Series" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKd45zvjcDFUEv_ohr_H...