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Distributed Systems in a Day

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Why distributed? The single machine ceilingFree
TCP: the first arrowFree
TLS: a secret in publicFree
Service discovery: finding payments mid-dropFree
API design: the $40 retryFree
One purchase, end to endFree
Module quiz (Locked)

System models: what can you assume? (Locked)
Clocks and ordering (Locked)
Leader election (Locked)
Replication: when is a write safe? (Locked)
Consistency and consensus (Locked)
Module quiz (Locked)

Broadcast protocols: telling every server (Locked)
CRDTs: carts that merge themselves (Locked)
Dynamo: the cart store that always says yes (Locked)
Transactions across machines: one checkout, three systems (Locked)
Module quiz (Locked)

Caching: the seat map, asked 40,000 times in one second (Locked)
Partitioning: splitting the database every sale goes through (Locked)
Load balancing: spreading the drop across app servers well (Locked)
Data storage: where each fact of a sale should live (Locked)
Messaging: confirmation emails and the queue (Locked)
Module quiz (Locked)

How things break: the 10:04 cascade (Locked)
Timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers: the retry storm (Locked)
The waiting room: rate limiting and load shedding (Locked)
Module quiz (Locked)

Observability: metrics, logs, and traces (Locked)
tixdrop at 100x, and what to learn next (Locked)
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