A Coursera course from UIUC introducing cloud computing and distributed systems, covering coordination of distributed systems and related algorithms. A second part (cloud-computing-2) continues the series.

Commenters call it a great introduction to distributed computing and coordination algorithms, and recommend it as a starting point before reading papers like Paxos.

What commenters said (2)

1. Recommendstaleodor2020in “Ask HN: Any good book recommendations on distributed systems design?”

   If courses count, I can recommend those 2 courses from UIUC on Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/learn/cloud-computing and https://www.coursera.org/learn/cloud-computing-2

2. Recommendscube22222017in “In search of a simple consensus algorithm”

   It's basically the topic of distributed computing and algorithms for the coordination of distributed systems.

   This is a great introductory course about it in my opinion: https://www.coursera.org/learn/cloud-computing

   Then, it's just reading papers like, which you mentioned, "The part time parliment" (paxos)

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