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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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1.2 License

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

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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)