Distributed Systems | Carnegie Mellon University Course

Gain hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and debugging real distributed systems with this comprehensive course from Carnegie Mellon University.

Introduction

Introduction to distributed systems with a focus on teaching concepts via projects implemented in the Go programming language.

Highlights

• Gain an understanding of the principles and techniques behind the design of distributed systems, such as locking, concurrency, scheduling, and communication across the network.
• Gain practical experience designing, implementing, and debugging real distributed systems.
• Learn major themes including scarcity, scheduling, concurrency and concurrent programming, naming, abstraction and modularity, imperfect communication and other types of failure, protection from accidental and malicious harm, optimism, and the use of instrumentation and monitoring and debugging tools in problem solving.
• Design, implement, and debug large programming projects.

Recommendation

This course is recommended for students who are proficient in C and Java programming on UNIX systems and have taken 15-213 with a "C-" or higher. It provides valuable hands-on experience in building distributed systems and is a great choice for those interested in distributed computing and system design.