Strong Consistency Courses and Certifications

ACM SIGPLAN

Bolt-On Strong Consistency - Specification, Implementation, and Verification

Explore automated verification of distributed consensus algorithms using weak replicated data stores to simplify strong consistency implementation and verification.

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

AWS Events

Multi-Region Strong Consistency with Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables - DAT440

Discover how to build resilient multi-Region applications using DynamoDB global tables with strong consistency, including use case identification and practical implementation demos.

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

USENIX

HTMFS - Strong Consistency Comes for Free with Hardware Transactional Memory in Persistent Memory File Systems

Explore hardware-software cooperation for high-performance, strongly consistent persistent memory file systems using Hardware Transactional Memory, overcoming traditional trade-offs between speed and data integrity.

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

USENIX

UniStore - A Fault-Tolerant Marriage of Causal and Strong Consistency

Explores a fault-tolerant data store combining causal and strong consistency for geo-distributed systems, addressing liveness challenges and optimizing durability costs in multi-consistency environments.

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

USENIX

Strong and Efficient Consistency with Consistency-Aware Durability

Introduces consistency-aware durability for strong consistency in distributed storage. Demonstrates cross-client monotonic reads in ORCA, a modified ZooKeeper, offering improved performance over strongly consistent systems.

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

Whizlabs

Google Cloud Spanner: Design, Scale & Operate Databases

Master designing, scaling, and operating globally distributed databases with Google Cloud Spanner, covering architecture, high availability, performance optimization, migration, and hands-on operational best practices.

• Coursera
• 6 hours 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Paul G. Allen School

Building High-Performance Distributed Storage Systems with Strong Consistency

Explore innovative approaches to building distributed storage systems that balance strong consistency with high performance, focusing on deferring consistency enforcement and novel durability primitives.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Oracle

Oracle Globally Distributed Database - Building Global-Scale Applications with Strong Consistency

Discover how Oracle's globally distributed database handles millions of transactions per second while ensuring 24/7 availability, data sovereignty compliance, and strong consistency across regions.

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

Harvard CMSA

Generalized Frechet Means with Random Minimizing Domains and Its Strong Consistency

Explore generalized Frechet means framework with random minimizing domains, covering strong consistency theorems and applications to non-Euclidean data analysis methods.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Architectural Patterns of Resilient Distributed Systems

Explore architectural patterns for building resilient distributed systems, focusing on adaptation, decomposition, consistency, and safety. Learn strategies for system evolution and testing.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Spanner - Google's Distributed Database

Explore Google's Spanner: a planet-scale distributed database with innovative features like lock-free strong reads and globally consistent snapshots, enabled by GPS and atomic clocks.

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

USENIX

Millions of Tiny Databases

Innovative database system for cloud storage, optimizing availability and consistency through distributed architecture. Explores Physalia's design and applications in AWS, offering insights for distributed systems.

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

Devoxx

Refactoring to a System of Systems

Explore refactoring monoliths to distributed systems, addressing challenges and improving modularity. Learn strategies for effective system decomposition and microservices implementation.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Chardonnay - Fast and General Datacenter Transactions for On-Disk Databases

Innovative approach to optimize distributed on-disk database transactions using fast 2PC and lock-free read protocol, enabling efficient data prefetching and minimizing contention in datacenter environments.

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

USENIX

Leader Election - Pitfalls and Alternatives

Uncover the hidden dangers of leader election in distributed systems, exploring fencing theory, real Google outage lessons, and practical alternatives to this critical design pattern.

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