Distributed Systems Courses and Certifications

Cloud Computing Concepts, Part 1

22 ratings

Know cloud systems from the inside out: gossip and membership protocols, P2P DHTs, key-value stores and CAP, clock synchronization, multicast ordering, and Paxos consensus, coded in C++.

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

Distributed Systems & Cloud Computing with Java

3262 ratings at Udemy

Learn Distributed Java Applications at Scale, Parallel Programming, Distributed Computing & Cloud Software Architecture

• Udemy
• 7 hours 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems - Spring 2020

7 ratings

A 20-lecture survey of distributed systems spanning RPC, replication, Raft, consistency, transactions, big data, Bitcoin, and Blockstack.

• YouTube
• 1 day 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Distributed Systems and Web Services

Analyze distributed architectures like client-server, peer-to-peer and microservices, build RESTful web services with Flask, containerize apps with Docker, and work with block and object cloud storage.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 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

Distributed Systems

8 ratings

These videos form an 8-lecture series on distributed systems, given as part of the undergraduate computer science course at the University of Cambridge.

• YouTube
• 7 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modern Distributed Systems

Distributed systems are the backbone of modern society but entail challenges in areas such as complexity and energy-use. Discover distributed systems from first principles, understand the architecture

• edX
• 6 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Cloud Computing Concepts: Part 2

6 ratings

Implement distributed computing concepts in C++: leader election, mutual exclusion, transactions and concurrency control, replication, stream and graph processing, distributed file systems, and security.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Conf42

Mastering the Maze: Navigating Complexity in Distributed Systems

Explore how network failures, concurrency, consistency, and system evolution create complexity in distributed systems, and examine strategies for managing them.

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

System Design for Beginners Course

85 ratings

Design a live video streaming system from requirements and architecture through APIs, data stores, protocols, UML, and server implementation.

• freeCodeCamp
• 1-2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Code Sync

Programming Distributed Systems - Keynote

Explores how programming-language ideas can make large distributed systems easier to program while preserving correctness and performance.

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

GOTO Conferences

Understanding Asynchronous Communication in Distributed Systems

Examines why “asynchronous” means different things in distributed systems and how those competing definitions shape communication choices.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Programming Distributed Systems

Explore how programming-language design can make large-scale distributed programs safer and easier, including language changes that prevent consistency and concurrency errors.

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

GOTO Conferences

You Keep Using That Word: Asynchronous in Distributed Systems

Examines why “asynchronous” means different things in distributed computing and how those definitions shape communication between services.

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

Devoxx

CAPtivating Architecture - Navigating Distributed Systems and Microservices

Explore the trade-offs and failure-handling patterns behind splitting services, coordinating Sagas, and keeping distributed applications resilient.

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