9 Best Articles in 2021
Martin Fowler
Patterns of Distributed Systems
Martin Fowler
10 min read · 114 saves · 2020-08-04 · A catalog of patterns to better understand, communicate, and teach the design of distributed systems
somethingsimilar.com
Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
somethingsimilar.com
~14 min read · 87 saves · From 2013 · January 14, 2013 08:15:00 AM PST I’ve been thinking about the lessons distributed systems engineers learn on the job. A great deal of our instruction is through scars made by mistakes made in…
somethingsimilar.com
Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
somethingsimilar.com
~14 min read · 35 saves · From 2013 · January 14, 2013 08:15:00 AM PST I’ve been thinking about the lessons distributed systems engineers learn on the job. A great deal of our instruction is through scars made by mistakes made in…
prestodb.io
Presto | Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data
prestodb.io
1 min read · 46 saves · From 2016 · Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data
videlalvaro.github.io
What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems
videlalvaro.github.io
45 saves · From 2015 · For quite some time now I’ve been trying to learn about distributed systems, and it’s appropriate to say that once you start digging, there seems to be no end to it, the rabbit hole goes on and on.…
Increment
A guide to distributed teams
Increment
~13 min read · 41 saves · 2019-12-02 · How thoughtful systems (and lots of emoji) make for happy, efficient teams—whether your desks are distributed across floors, cities, or continents.
book.mixu.net
Distributed systems for fun and profit
book.mixu.net
34 saves · From 2015 · I wanted a text that would bring together the ideas behind many of the more recent distributed systems - systems such as Amazon's Dynamo, Google's BigTable and MapReduce, Apache's Hadoop and so on. In…
crypto.com
Matt Blaze / crypto.com
crypto.com
835 saves · From 2018 · Matt Blaze directs the Distributed Systems Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. This site does not trade in or provide services related to cryptocurrencies. It is concerned with cryptography,…
grahamlea.com
Distributed Transactions: The Icebergs of Microservices
grahamlea.com
~18 min read · 35 saves · From 2016 · Why are distributed transactions icebergs? It’s not because they’re cool and beautiful and you have to look under the surface to comprehend them.Distributed transactions are icebergs because (
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Our World in Data
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations
Our World in Data
4 min read · 267 saves · 2020-12-16 · Tracking COVID-19 vaccination rates is crucial to understand the scale of protection against the virus, and how this is distributed across the global population.
In Science
CoinDesk
Sci-Hub Is Now On the 'Uncensorable Web'
CoinDesk
2 min read · 96 saves · Jan 12th · Sci-Hub, a pirate database of academic papers using bitcoin for funding, has joined the distributed web's domain names network Handshake.
The New Stack
Everything You Need to Know about Distributed SQL
The New Stack
4 min read · Jan 13th · The advantages of distributed SQL.
The New York Times
How Israel Became a World Leader in Vaccinating Against Covid-19
The New York Times
~11 min read · 55 saves · Jan 1st · Isabel Kershner · Badly hit by the coronavirus, Israel has distributed the first of two vaccine doses to more than 10 percent of its population. Prime Minister Netanyahu is leading the charge, bolstering his own…
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Werner Vogels
All Things Distributed
Werner Vogels
18 saves · From 2016 · Werner Vogels' weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.
github.com
uber/horovod: Distributed training framework for TensorFlow.
github.com
18 saves · From 2017 · horovod - Distributed training framework for TensorFlow.
dancres.github.io
Distributed Systems Reading List
dancres.github.io
3 min read · 17 saves · From 2017 · Introduction I often argue that the toughest thing about distributed systems is changing the way you think. The below is a collection of material I've found useful for motivating these changes.…
the-paper-trail.org
Distributed systems theory for the distributed systems engineer : Paper Trail
the-paper-trail.org
7 min read · 42 saves · From 2014 · Gwen Shapira, SA superstar and now full-time engineer at Cloudera, asked a question on Twitter that got me thinking. My response of old might have been “well, here’s the FLP paper, and here’s the…
blog.pragmaticengineer.com
Distributed architecture concepts I learned while building a large payments system
blog.pragmaticengineer.com
10 min read · 48 saves · From 2018 · I joined Uber two years ago as a mobile software engineer with some backend experience. I ended up building the payments functionality in the app - and rewriting the app on the way. Afterwards, I…
The Register
Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don't call back when asked for evidence
The Register
2 min read · 118 saves · From 2018 · Where is your distributed ledger technology now?
Aeon+Psyche
Workers of the world unite on distributed digital platforms
Aeon+Psyche
10 min read · 63 saves · From 2018 · The distributed network has gobbled the hierarchical firm. Only by seizing the platform can workers avoid digital serfdom
medium.com
Let’s take a crack at understanding distributed “consensus”
medium.com
20+ min read · 35 saves · From 2018 · Preethi Kasireddy · Do you know how distributed systems work? It can be a tough topic to learn about, mainly because the knowledge surrounding it is…
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Operating a Large, Distributed System in a Reliable Way: Practices I Learned
blog.pragmaticengineer.com
~14 min read · 23 saves · 2019-07-15 · For the past few years, I've been building and operating a large distributed system: the payments system at Uber. I've learned a lot about distributed architecture concepts during this time. I've seen…