L4: What could go wrong?
We build distributed systems to tolerate failures. But if we don't have a good idea of what could go wrong, we may build the wrong thing. Here I go through a bunch of potential failure modes. Have you seen some cool failures? Mention them in the comments! See http://www.distributedsystemscourse.com for more information about this series, the class project, and links to slides. Music: 7th Floor Tango from the YouTube Audio Library.
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L5: The many types of fail
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L3: How to learn distributed systems
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L2: Why build a distributed system?
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L16: The CAP Theorem
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