Ask HN: Good resources to learn about mission-critical distributed systems?

24 pointsby nsstring968 anni fa4 comments

I've been reading up quite a bit on distributed database and compute technologies like Spanner/MapReduce as well as some interesting blog posts on scaling out of Facebook/Twitter/Netflix. That got me wondering how even "harder" problems - like Visa's payments system, or the global stock exchange network, are implemented. In these applications, the problem is inherently planet-scale, correctness is of utmost importance, and latency is still very, very important.

I haven't been able to find much online on how applications like these are designed, verified and implemented, so any help will be appreciated!

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rasmi8 anni fa

Give "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" a read. It's an excellent book on these topics.

https://dataintensive.net

TACIXAT8 anni fa

This repo was posted a few weeks back.

https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

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deathtrader6668 anni fa

The books on "Architecture of Open Source Applications" might have what you're looking for.

lambda_func8 anni fa

You can start with Prof. Ken Birman's book "Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems: Building High-Assurance Applications and Cloud-Hosted Services".