Consensus & Coordination Courses and Certifications

Lessons Learned From Etcd Data Inconsistency Issues

A postmortem of etcd’s critical data inconsistency incident, tracing its causes, discovery, remediation, and lessons for preventing similar failures.

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

Etcd v3.6 Features, Performance Improvements, and Community-Supported Operator

Discover etcd v3.6's new features, performance improvements, community-supported operator, and robustness testing framework for enhanced Kubernetes deployments.

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

Blockchain Scalability and its Foundations in Distributed Systems

121 ratings at Coursera

Learn to make blockchains scale: solve consensus under crash and arbitrary failures, spot network-delay attacks that steal assets, and design secure, bottleneck-free blockchain systems.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Building Modern Distributed Systems with Java

Build a Tiny-URL system in Java while learning resilient RPCs, Cassandra sharding and the CAP theorem, RAFT cluster coordination, and Kafka-based event-driven messaging.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Multi-Agent Design Patterns: Coordination, Robustness & HCI

Design multi-agent AI systems using coordination topologies, adaptive retries, majority voting, and human-agent escalation workflows.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The ASF

High Performance IoT Data Replication Over Raft

Discover how to implement high-performance IoT data replication using the Raft consensus protocol, focusing on optimization techniques and practical applications in distributed systems.

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

Beyond Cryptocurrency: Blockchain for the Real World

2 ratings

Explore how blockchain can support real-world assets and cross-border payments through Stellar’s multi-issuer ledger and federated consensus.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

IIT Delhi;  NPTEL

Advanced Distributed Systems

Explore advanced distributed systems through DHTs, logical clocks, consensus protocols, CAP theorem, blockchains, and distributed storage technologies.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course

CodeWithYu

Realtime Data Streaming - End-to-End Data Engineering Project

Build a real-time data streaming pipeline using Apache Airflow, Kafka, Spark, and Cassandra. Learn end-to-end data engineering, from ingestion to processing and storage, all containerized with Docker.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Strange Loop Conference

Raft - The Understandable Distributed Protocol

An understandable walkthrough of Raft, covering leader election, log replication, network partitions, and practical implementation.

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

Strange Loop Conference

The Magical Rebalance Protocol of Apache Kafka

Explore Kafka’s hidden, extensible assignment protocol for consumer groups, leader election, and task management, including its binary network design and Java APIs.

• YouTube
• 41 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

Strange Loop Conference

How to Have Your Causality and Wall Clocks, Too

Learn how distributed monotonic clocks preserve causality while remaining close to wall-clock time in distributed systems.

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

GOTO Conferences

Hot Deploying Low-Latency Services for 24/7 Operation

Explore hot upgrades that keep microsecond-response services running through failures without interrupting service or losing data.

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

Devoxx

Debugging Distributed Systems

Trace a ZooKeeper failure from network stress testing to a TCP stream state mismatch, then follow the fix.

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