[epenn]

As a supplement to these I would also recommend checking out the lecture notes for 15-440, the intro distributed systems class. I took it spring of 2013 and thought it gave me a really good grounding in the material.

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-440-f14/index/lecture_in...

[nitishmd]

Yup, thats one course I wanted to take but could not. Would be great if cmu could give access to class video lectures.