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

#1

Post by rsa » Sun, Oct 23, 2011, 6:26 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by ericflo » Sun, Oct 23, 2011, 7:28 AM UTC

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...

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

#3

Post by benkant » Sun, Oct 23, 2011, 11:18 AM UTC

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

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

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

#4

Post by robotresearcher » Sun, Oct 23, 2011, 5:38 PM UTC

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....

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

#5

Post by rsa » Sun, Oct 23, 2011, 9:38 PM UTC

ericflo wrote: post #2

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...

Thanks for the link. Awesome paper.

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

#6

Post by bankim » Mon, Oct 24, 2011, 8:17 PM UTC

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