[Racing0461]

I wish there was a good way to learn distributed systems between dense lectures on MIT OCW and stringing together libraries with raft/paxos already implemented in it or using aws/azure "services"

Kind of like this codecrafters.io where i get a working KV Store/Blob Storage/Kafka Stream out at the end. Code crafters sounded good in the beginning, but it looks too beginner friendly (their web server example is just writing hard coded text back to a socket and i'm sure the other examples are just as shallow).

If anyone has any examples of this, lemme know.

[shepherdjerred]

I took a Distributed Systems course at Georgia Tech's OMSCS program this spring, which used a learning framework from the University of Washington: https://github.com/emichael/dslabs

You make a key-value store using multiple techniques, from a basic single-node KV store, to a primary/replica, to PAXOS, to sharded PAXOS (which is essentially what AWS DynamoDB is, minus all of the features they've added since launch).

It's written in modern Java, and the tests that validate your implementation are very thorough.

I learned a ton from this, although I gave up at the last milestone because my grade was satisfactory in the class :)

Alternatively, you could enroll in the OMSCS and take the course yourself. It's only $600 per class at a top-10 school! The application is very easy and they accept anyone who has a reasonable chance of completing the degree. If you have any questions about the program feel free to email me (check my profile) https://omscs.gatech.edu/

[Racing0461]

Is there any way to take the class without registering at a self pace?

[shepherdjerred]

The class was essentially just the project in that repo plus some video lectures. Supposedly these lectures from MIT [0] are similar. Alternatively you could just read the course textbook [1] which I think is pretty good.

Here's the course page [2] if you want to see more details, the syllabus, etc., and some student reviews [3] if you want more context. Many students found the course difficult -- it's one of the hardest rated courses in the program and rated it rather unfairly IMO -- it's a difficult subject but the course itself is about as approachable as you can make distributed systems.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-W...

[1]: https://book.mixu.net/distsys/

[2]: https://omscs.gatech.edu/cs-7210-distributed-computing

[3]: https://www.omscentral.com/courses/distributed-computing/rev...