<p>Learn the basic principles that govern how distributed systems work and how you can design your systems for increased performance, availability and scalability. Understand the basic algorithms and protocols used to solve the most common problems in the space of distributed systems.</p>

Distributed Systems for Practitioners

Preface

Fundamental Concepts

Distributed Transactions &amp; Consensus

Time and order are some of the most challenging aspects of distributed systems. As you might have realised already by the examples presented, they are also very intertwined. For instance, time can be defined by the order of some events, such as the ticks of a clock. At the same time, the order of some events can also be defined based on the time each of these events happened. This relationship can feel natural when dealing with a system that is composed of a single node, but it gets a lot more complicated when dealing with distributed systems that consist of many nodes. As a result, people that have been building single-node, centralised applications sometimes get accustomed to operating under principles and assumptions that do not hold when working in a distributed setting. This part will study this relationship between time and order, the intricacies related to distributed systems and some of the techniques that can be used to tackle some of the problems inherent in distributed systems.

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