Consensus & Coordination Courses and Certifications

Simons Institute

Algorand's Forthcoming Blockchain Technology

Explore Algorand's innovative blockchain technology with founder Silvio Micali, discussing its potential to revolutionize digital transactions and decentralized systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

GOTO Conferences

Clustered Event-Driven Services

Explore clustered event-driven services using Raft consensus for state replication. Learn benefits over traditional architectures and how it supports domain-driven design for fast, resilient services.

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

Docker

Heart of the SwarmKit - Store, Topology and Object Model

Explore SwarmKit's core components for orchestrating distributed systems, including node discovery, consensus, and task scheduling primitives.

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

GOTO Conferences

Achieving Consensus in Blockchain-based Systems

Explore blockchain consensus mechanisms, from Bitcoin's proof-of-work to alternatives like proof-of-stake, examining their strengths and challenges in decentralized systems.

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

GOTO Conferences

Practicalities of Productionizing Distributed Systems

Practical strategies for deploying distributed systems in production, covering failure modes, monitoring, logging, performance optimization, and infrastructure management techniques.

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

GOTO Conferences

Cluster Consensus - When Aeron Met Raft

Explore consensus protocols in distributed systems, focusing on Raft and Aeron. Learn about high-performance computing, cluster management, and efficient data processing techniques.

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

Rust

Using Raft in Rust to Build Distributed Systems - RustConf 2018

Explore Raft consensus algorithm implementation in Rust for building distributed systems. Learn to create a simple distributed Key-Value database using Raft in Rust.

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

Rust

TiKV - Building a Distributed Key-Value Store with Rust

Explore the development of TiKV, a distributed key-value store built with Rust. Learn about implementing distributed transactions, horizontal scalability, and key challenges in creating a modern database from scratch.

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

Rust

Qdrant - A Vector Search Engine in Rust

Explore vector search engines, their capabilities, and implementation in Rust. Gain insights into neural search, similarity models, and concurrent programming techniques.

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

CMU Database Group

Introduction to Distributed Databases - Lecture 21

Explore distributed database systems, their architectures, and key concepts for scalable data management in modern applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CMU Database Group

Distributed Transactional Database Systems - Lecture 22

Explore distributed transactional database systems, covering coordination, commit protocols, fault tolerance, and replication strategies for robust and scalable data management.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CMU Database Group

Architecture Insight of OceanBase: A Distributed SQL Database - CMU Database Seminar

Explore OceanBase's distributed SQL database architecture, covering design goals, replication, transactions, HTAP challenges, and performance benchmarks. Gain insights into its implementation for mission-critical systems.

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

Scala Days Conferences

Akka JS - Drop Your Actors Outside the JVM Boundaries

Explore porting Akka to Scala.js, enabling unified concurrent programming across JVM and JavaScript environments. Learn about challenges, implementations, and future plans for this ambitious project.

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

Zero Database Downtime with etcd-operator

Explore how Etcd-operator automates etcd operations, enabling zero downtime upgrades, multi-zone redundancy, and automatic recovery. Learn to integrate it for efficient database administration.

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

GOTO Conferences

Patterns of Distributed Systems

Explore patterns in distributed systems design, focusing on common problems and solutions in cloud services and databases. Learn about Raft, Paxos, and principles for robust, scalable architectures.

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