Patterns of Distributed Systems • Unmesh Joshi & James Lewis

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Unmesh Joshi - Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks & Author of "Patterns of Distributed Systems"
James Lewis - Principal Consultant & Technical Director at Thoughtworks
RESOURCES
Unmesh
https://twitter.com/unmeshjoshi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/unmesh-joshi-9487635
https://www.thoughtworks.com/profiles/u/unmesh-joshi

James
https://twitter.com/boicy
https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices
https://github.com/boicy
https://www.bovon.org
https://www.thoughtworks.com/profiles/j/james-lewis

DESCRIPTION
A Patterns Approach to Designing Distributed Systems and Solving Common Implementation Problems
More and more enterprises today are dependent on cloud services from providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP. They also use products, such as Kafka and Kubernetes, or databases, such as YugabyteDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4j, that are distributed by nature. Because these distributed systems are inherently stateful systems, enterprise architects and developers need to be prepared for all the things that can and will go wrong when data is stored on multiple servers--from process crashes to network delays and unsynchronized clocks.
"Patterns of Distributed Systems" describes a set of patterns that have been observed in mainstream open-source distributed systems. Studying the common problems and the solutions that are embodied by the patterns in this guide will give you a better understanding of how these systems work, as well as a solid foundation in distributed system design principles.
* Book description: © O'Reilly
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Unmesh Joshi • Patterns of Distributed Systems
Darnell, Harrison & Seldess • CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide
Guy Harrison • Next Generation Databases
Burns, Beda & Hightower • Kubernetes: Up & Running
Jez Humble & Dave Farley • Continuous Delivery

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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. A patterns-based exploration (00:01:34)

3. Should every software developer understand distributed systems? (00:11:25)

4. Comparing patterns: Raft vs Paxos (00:15:55)

5. Why are patterns useful? (00:33:46)

6. Why do patterns remain underutilized? (00:37:58)

7. Outro (00:40:26)