Distributed Systems

Curated list of concepts, patterns, articles and more to get an understanding of Distributed System. Trying to build an understanding on how large scale distributed systems are build.

Before Starting

One should be well versed with basic concepts of Operating Systems like

Memory Management , Virtual Memory, Paging
File Systems Works
Networking basics like TCP/IP & UDP, CIDR
Concurrency

Introducing Distributed System

A nice article to start the journey of understanding distributed system.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-thorough-introduction-to-distributed-systems-3b91562c9b3c/

Fallacies of distributed systems

Concepts

Distributed Data Stores

CAP Theorem : https://github.com/santojos/Distributed-Systems/blob/main/CAP%20Theorem.md

Scaling

Consistency

Availability

Partitioning or sharding

Replication

Distributed Consensus

Raft : http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/
Paxos

Fault Tolerance

Latency

Network Partition

Papers

Languages

Earlang & Go