Fault Tolerance Courses and Certifications

ChariotSolutions

Above the Clouds - Introducing Akka

Explore Akka's unified runtime for scalable, fault-tolerant systems using Actors and STM. Learn to solve complex scalability issues and implement a high-performance compute grid.

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

Meta

Turning Caches into Distributed Systems with Mcrouter

Explore Facebook's mcrouter software for transforming standalone caches into robust distributed systems, addressing challenges like transient failures and multiple clusters.

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

Conf42

Mastering the Maze: Navigating Complexity in Distributed Systems

Explore distributed systems complexities, challenges, and strategies. Learn about architecture, consistency, availability, and SRE principles for navigating complex systems effectively.

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

AWS Events

Advanced Integration Patterns and Trade-offs for Loosely Coupled Systems

Explore advanced integration patterns and design trade-offs for building distributed systems, focusing on API management, event handling, and solving common challenges in loosely coupled architectures.

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

The Julia Programming Language

Easy and Featureful Parallelism with Dagger.jl - JuliaCon 2021

Explore advanced parallelism in Julia with Dagger.jl, offering GPU execution, fault tolerance, and efficient resource utilization. Learn through practical examples and discover its powerful features.

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

Devoxx

Without Resilience, Nothing Else Matters

Explore resilience in software systems, embracing failure as inevitable. Learn design principles for fault-tolerant, robust applications that can withstand outages and maintain operational integrity.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Virtual Consensus in Delos

Explores virtualizing consensus in replicated systems, enabling dynamic protocol changes without downtime. Introduces VirtualLog and Loglets for simplified, diverse, and composable consensus implementations, showcasing benefits in the Delos database.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Beyond Blockchain - Convergent Consensus

Explore a novel consensus algorithm inspired by CRDTs and category theory, offering efficient and scalable decentralized computation. Learn about Convergent Proof of Stake and its implementation using Convex Lisp.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Resilient Microservices Without the Chaos

Explore resilient microservices design using Service-Level Fault Injection Testing. Learn about Filibuster, a tool that verifies application behavior under failure, combining static analysis and test synthesis for robust systems.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Function Passing Style - Typed, Distributed Functional Programming

Explore function-passing style for distributed programming, leveraging Scala's type system and language features to enable safe, asynchronous computation on immutable data across distributed environments.

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

Ryan O'Donnell

Quantum "Supremacy" - Lecture 25 of Quantum Computation at CMU

Explore quantum supremacy, its challenges, and implications in computational theory. Delve into error correction, threshold theorems, and the potential of quantum systems.

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

Databricks

Preventing Common Pitfalls in Production Streaming Jobs

Explore key strategies for optimizing streaming jobs in production, covering input parameters, stateful streaming, output configurations, and job modifications to ensure performance and fault tolerance.

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

Unity

Building Simulated Worlds - Orchestrating Thousands of Unity3D Instances

Explore the technical challenges of creating massive, persistent game worlds using Unity3D and SpatialOS, focusing on distributed systems and entity-component architecture.

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

NDC Conferences

Drinking a River of IoT Data with Akka.NET

Explore scaling IoT data processing with Akka.NET's actor model. Learn stateful coding, resilience, and strategies for handling millions of devices efficiently.

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

NDC Conferences

System Stable - Robust Connected Applications with Polly, the .NET Resilience Framework

Enhance .NET application resilience using Polly framework. Learn reactive and proactive strategies, from retries to bulkhead isolation, for robust and reliable connected applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk