Ask HN: How do I study distributed sytems?

[borncrusader]

I'm at the juncture of my career where I want to focus more on Distributed Systems and specialize more in it. Short of reading seminal papers, understanding existing data systems like Spark, Kafka etc., how do I gain more working knowledge so as to improve my implementation skills of such a system.

While I haven't really worked on a major project that explores core problems, I'd like to spend the next year or two learning more about it.

Looking forward to learning from the pioneers in this field who have implemented many such systems.

[bharatm]

These are good places to start exploring.

MOOCs:

https://www.edx.org/course/architecting-distributed-cloud-ap...

https://www.edx.org/course/reliable-distributed-algorithms-p... - Part 2 contains all material from part 1 and part 2.

Books:

Big Data: Principles and Best Practices of Scalable Real-time Data Systems

Designing Data‑Intensive Applications

Programming Models for Distributed Computation

There are assignments in Go and other course material at MIT distributed systems course: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/

https://disco.ethz.ch/courses/podc/ has some good lecture notes as well.

[slimshady94]

This is a mid-level (not too simple, not too complex) introduction about the basics that I found useful http://book.mixu.net/distsys/

[DevX101]

Check out relevant posts from this site:

http://highscalability.com/all-time-favorites/

[sidcool]

Thanks for the question. I have been interested in distributed systems for a long time but so far haven't got a solid material.