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Lecture 1: Introduction

The opening lecture of MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems (Spring 2020), introducing the course and core challenges of distributed systems. It begins a playlist that goes on to cover Raft and other consensus papers in Go.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as the standard free course for learning distributed systems from real papers.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems
Topic
distributed systems
Format
lecture
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
5
HN mentions in dataset
7
Recommendation years in dataset
2020–2025

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  • MIT online trainig has this great YouTube playlist on distributed systems, with one of the lectures being on RAFT [1,2,3]. The entire playlist [4] is probably worth your time, though. [1] Intro [LINK] [2] Part I: [LINK] [3] Part II [LINK] [4] Playlist for the …

    taude on Hacker News · 2020-12
    In Raft Visualization

  • Not a book nor a paper, but MIT has published their recent Distr. Systems lectures[0] on youtube. Haven't finished it yet but it touches on papers that stood the test of times. [0] [VIDEO]

    yes_but_no on Hacker News · 2021-02
    In Ask HN: Recommended books and papers on distributed systems?

  • Not from stanford but I enjoyed these: MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems [VIDEO] CMU The Databaseology Lectures [LINK] You essentially learn systems by looking at lots and lots of examples of how good real world systems are designed.

    uyt on Hacker News · 2021-06
    In Stanford CS Curriculum 2021

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