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Distributed Systems in Practice
Consensus, replication and failure handling — the parts that bite in production.
4.9(428 ratings) 72 lessons · 9 modules 26h2.1k students
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What you'll learn
- Choose between consistency models with real trade-offs in mind
- Implement leader election and log replication
- Design idempotent APIs that survive retries
- Diagnose split-brain and clock-skew failures
About this course
Most engineers meet distributed systems for the first time during an outage. This course walks through replication, partitioning, consensus and exactly-once semantics using real incident narratives, then has you implement a replicated key-value store with a leader election protocol.
Curriculum
9 modules · 72 lessons · 26h
The detailed curriculum for this course is being finalised. The outline covers 72 lessons across 9 modules.
Requirements
- Two or more years of backend experience
- Comfort with networking basics
Who this course is for
- Senior backend engineers
- Engineers preparing for staff-level interviews
Student reviews
No written reviews yet. The course has 428 ratings with an average of 4.9 out of 5.
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