Distributed Systems
The 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing: A Deep Dive
Understand why distributed systems fail in unexpected ways. Peter Deutsch's 8 fallacies, real-world examples, and practical strategies to design resilient systems from the ground up.
Distributed Transactions & Sagas: Managing Consistency Across Services
Learn why traditional ACID transactions don't work in distributed systems, master the Saga pattern (choreography vs orchestration), implement compensating transactions, and understand idempotency for exactly-once processing.
Service Discovery & Configuration Management in Distributed Systems
Learn how services find each other in dynamic environments, implement client-side vs server-side discovery, and manage configuration across microservices with practical patterns and tools.
Distributed Caching & CDNs
Design multi-layer cache hierarchies from browser to database. Learn CDN strategies, cache coherence, and geo-distributed caching patterns used by the world's largest systems.
Distributed Data Stores
Master the architecture behind Dynamo, Cassandra, and Riak. Learn consistent hashing, quorum systems, vector clocks, and conflict-free replicated data types.
Fault Tolerance & Resilience
Master the patterns that keep distributed systems running under failure. Learn circuit breakers, retries with backoff, bulkheads, chaos engineering, and graceful degradation.