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CS-401

Distributed Systems

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Reason about systems spread across many machines: failures, clocks, consensus, replication and the modern platforms built on them.

Start hereYou need CS-301. Run the exercises with several processes on one laptop; you do not need a cluster.

9 hours total5 Chapters20 Lessons1 Exams3 CreditsFREE
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Take a position on Distributed Systems. The AI counselor argues the other side, asks you questions back, and cites a source for every fact it states. Sources listed under a reply are the pages it actually found; if none are listed, it is arguing from reasoning only. It is an AI and it can be wrong: check the sources.

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    Prerequisites::CS-301 Operating Systems

    Course Syllabus

    9h total

    Practice

    1. Run two processes that message each other and drop one message; observe the disagreement.
    2. Attach Lamport timestamps to their messages and order the events.
    3. Classify three real databases on the CAP triangle with a sentence of evidence each.

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    What does 'partition tolerance' actually mean, and why is it not optional?

    Topics Covered

    distributedconsensusreplication

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