Uni Distributed Systems Topics

1.1 Meta

1.1.1 Contributing

These study materials are heavily based on professor Kriha’s “Verteilte Systeme” lecture at HdM Stuttgart and prior work of fellow students.

Found an error or have a suggestion? Please open an issue on GitHub (github.com/pojntfx/uni-distributedsystems-notes):

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1.1.2 License

Uni Distributed Systems Topics (c) 2023 Felicitas Pojtinger and contributors

SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0

1.2 Topics

• I/O & Process Models
• Delivery Guarantees
• Replication, Consensus, Eventual Consistency, FIFO, Reliable Broadcasting
• Synchronization
• Correctness, Liveness, Complexity, Failure Modes
• Fan-Out Architecture
• Two-Phase Commits (2PC)
• Sharding, Partitioning
• Information and Distribution Architecture
• Concrete design proposal, e.g. Twitter (Scalability, availability, security)