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by strlen 4545 days ago
> It goes even beyond that. A lot of other very important, fundamental topics belong under the umbrella of distributed systems, starting with routing. The Internet is, after all, a giant distributed routing system.

Yes! DNS is also fascinating as far as distributed databases and consistency go:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~akella/CS740/S08/740-Papers/MD88.p...