MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems

The 6.824 is a great course on distributed systems from MIT. Alongside the lectures, you also have a chance to implement a basic distributed system using Go by going through 4 labs. You are going to learn and implement MapReduce, Raft, Sharding and a lot of other stuff.

Online Content:

• Course Homepage
• Course Video

How to approach it:

1. Watch the lecture videos with the handouts from the course
2. Read the papers
3. Taking notes
4. Implement the labs(repeating the step 1 and 2)

Notes on Lecture

There are already official notes for each lecture on the course website.

I just try to note something I thought was interesting while I am watching the videos.

1. Lecture 1: Introduction
2. Lecture 2: RPC and Threads
3. Lecture 3: GFS
4. Lecture 4: Primary-Backup Replication
5. Lecture 5: Go, Threads and Raft
6. Lecture 6-7: Fault Tolerance Raft ... :construction:

Notes on Lab

There are 4 labs in this course.

They are supposed to be written in Go language. Have a quick introduction here on the official website.

You can also refer to this cheatsheet of Go for a quick recap of the basics.

1. Lab 1: MapReduce Notes, Code 🏁

2. Lab 2: Raft Code 🏁

   • Part 2A Notes
   • Part 2B Notes
   • Part 2C Notes

3. Lab 3: Fault-tolerant Key/Value Service Notes, Code

4. Lab 4: Sharded Key/Value Service Notes, Code