Consistency & CAP Courses and Certifications

Principles of the CAP Theorem and Distributed Data

Explore the CAP Theorem's impact on distributed databases, understanding consistency, availability, and partition tolerance guarantees for informed system design decisions.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Devoxx

Beyond the CAP Theorem - Consistency Without Consensus With CRDTs

CRDTs let highly available distributed systems converge after concurrent updates without coordinating writers through consensus.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Caleb Curry

CAP Theorem: Understanding Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance in System Design

Explore the fundamental principles of CAP theorem in distributed systems, understanding trade-offs between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance for optimal system design.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Model NoSQL Data with Azure

Participants master document storage practices and partition key design in Azure Cosmos DB to build high throughput globally distributed applications.

• edX
• 2 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Design and implement a replication strategy for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

Design and implement a replication strategy for Azure Cosmos DB SQL API

• Microsoft Learn
• 1 hour 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Caleb Curry

System Design - Essential Concepts and Scaling Strategies

Master essential system design concepts from MVC architecture to scaling apps for millions of users, covering CAP theorem, replication, sharding, and NoSQL databases.

• YouTube
• 4 hours 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Devoxx

Data Consistency in Microservices Architecture

Examines ways to keep related customer, order, or payment data consistent across microservices, drawing on architecture experience and distributed-systems patterns.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

CMU Database Group

Introduction to Distributed Databases - Lecture 21

Explore distributed database systems, their architectures, and key concepts for scalable data management across multiple nodes.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Devoxx

The Hardest Part of Microservices - Your Data

Explore how domain-driven design can define data and transaction boundaries that let microservices remain autonomous while handling consistency and failure.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Strange Loop Conference

CRDTs Illustrated

Visual introduction to conflict-free replicated data types, showing convergent and commutative implementations for applications that recover gracefully from network partitions.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Strange Loop Conference

Transactions - Myths, Surprises and Opportunities

Explores how modern transaction algorithms deliver strong guarantees, high availability, and scalable performance in distributed systems.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Conflict Resolution for Eventual Consistency

Explore how collaborative editors and multi-datacenter databases reconcile concurrent updates after network interruptions using conflict-free replicated data types.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Reactive Systems - 21st Architecture for 21st Century Systems

Explore reactive systems architecture for modern software design. Learn about asynchronous messaging, isolation, back-pressure, and microservices to build scalable, resilient applications suited for 21st-century challenges.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Don't Give Up on Serializability Just Yet

Explore serializability in distributed databases, its benefits, and challenges. Learn about consistency models, transaction execution, and the balance between consistency and performance in modern systems.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

Event Sourcing - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Explore challenges and solutions in implementing Event Sourcing, including storage, schema evolution, scalability, and consistency, based on real-world commercial experience.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk