Systems
Distributed systems
Replication, consensus with Raft, and staying correct when machines and networks fail.
About 60 hours of study.
Where to learn it
Read
Distributed systems: for fun and profit
Mikito Takada
The whole book
Short and free. Read it before the MIT lectures.
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Watch
Distributed Systems (MIT 6.5840, formerly 6.824)
Robert Morris and others
Lectures, plus the MapReduce and Raft labs
Lecture videos, notes and the Go labs are all on the course site.
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Practise
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- Designing Data-Intensive Applications (read, to go deeper, paid)
Parts II and III
Which roles ask for it
- Software engineer (SDE) good to have
- Backend engineer good to have
- Data engineer good to have
- Machine learning engineer good to have
- DevOps / site reliability engineer good to have
- Cloud engineer good to have
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