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

[rsa]

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.

[robotresearcher]

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....

[bankim]

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

[ericflo]

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...

[rsa]

Thanks for the link. Awesome paper.

[benkant]

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

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