Season 1 — Distributed Systems Foundations
Take a reader who builds correct single-machine code and give them the mental scaffold for thinking in distributed primitives — where every interaction is over a network and every component can fail.
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- Day 01FEATURETwo regions by FridayThe list everyone has heard and almost nobody uses as a checklist.Arc 1 — The Premises of Distributed Computing
- Day 02FEATURETwo failures, one shapeRetries assume the wire still exists; DNS-TTL assumes the endpoint still answers. The us-east replica needs both to be true.Arc 1 — The Premises of Distributed Computing
- Day 03FEATUREWhere the data livesThe expensive lines on Diego's cost sheet aren't replicas or retries. They're the reads he hasn't yet decided are strong.Arc 1 — The Premises of Distributed Computing