awesome-distributed-systems

A (hopefully) curated list on awesome material on distributed systems, inspired by other awesome frameworks like awesome-python. Most links will tend to be readings on architecture itself rather than code itself.

Bootcamp

Read things here before you start.

• CAP Theorem, Also plain english explanation
• Fallacies of Distributed Computing YES!! EXPECT EVERYTHING TO BREAK!!!

Books

• Distributed Systems for fun and profit [Free]
• Distributed Systems Principles and Paradigms, Andrew Tanenbaum [Amazon Link]
• Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems [Free]

Papers

Must read papers on distributed systems. While nearly all of Lamport's work should feature here, just adding a few that must be read.

• Times, Clocks and Ordering of Events in Distributed Systems Lamport's paper, the Quintessential distributed systems primer
• The Part Time Parliament Paxos

Storage & Databases

• Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key Value Store
• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
• The Google File System
• Cassandra: A Decentralized Structured Storage System Inspired heavily by Dynamo
• CRUSH: Controlled, Scalable, Decentralized Placement of Replicated Data, Basis of Ceph distributed storage system

Distributed Consensus

• The Chubby Lock Service for loosely coupled distributed systems Inspiration behind other Service Discovery & Coordination ZK, etcd, Consul etc.
• Paxos made live - An engineering perspective Google's learning while implementing systems atop of Paxos
• Raft Consensus Algorithm Do checkout an interesting visualization of raft

Courses

• Cloud Computing Concepts, University of Illinois
• CMU: Distributed Systems in Go Programming Language
• Software Defined Networking , Georgia Tech.

Blogs and other reading links

• Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
• High Scalability Several architectures of huge internet services, for eg twitter, whatsapp
• The C10K problem
• On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services