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.
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- Run two processes that message each other and drop one message; observe the disagreement.
- Attach Lamport timestamps to their messages and order the events.
- 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?
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