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Distributed Systems

Hussein Nasser via YouTube

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This course introduces distributed-systems fundamentals through practical web-application examples, covering concurrency, race conditions, distributed transactions, publish-subscribe architecture, database sharding, Kafka, caching, and outage analysis.

Syllabus

The Barebones of Distributed Systems.
Is MultiProcessing over a Single TCP Connection a Good Idea?.
Concurrent Requests and Unique Keys on Web Applications.
What is a Distributed Transaction in Microservices?.
How to Avoid Double Booking and Race Conditions in Online Web Applications.
Publish-Subscribe Architecture (Explained by Example).
When should you shard your database?.
Apache Kafka Crash Course.
Basic Caching Techniques Explained - Spatial, Temporal, Distributed, Write-Through, Write-Back,Aside.
A Detailed Analysis of The Amazon Kinesis US East-1 Outage - AWS Outage Explained.
Distributed Transactions are Hard (How Two-Phase Commit works).

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Hussein Nasser

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