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Playlist · MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems

MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems (Spring 2020)

by MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems · 20 videos

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1 Lecture 1: Introduction 1:19:35 2020-02-06
2 Lecture 2: RPC and Threads 1:20:22 2020-02-07
3 Lecture 3: GFS 1:22:22 2020-02-13
4 Lecture 4: Primary-Backup Replication 1:19:20 2020-02-18
5 Lecture 5: Go, Threads, and Raft 1:22:28 2020-02-24
6 Lecture 6: Fault Tolerance: Raft (1) 1:20:01 2020-03-01
7 Lecture 7: Fault Tolerance: Raft (2) 1:17:37 2020-03-01
8 Lecture 8: Zookeeper 1:20:32 2020-03-05
9 Lecture 9: More Replication, CRAQ 1:18:34 2020-03-07
10 Lecture 10: Cloud Replicated DB, Aurora 1:19:38 2020-03-11
11 Lecture 11: Cache Consistency: Frangipani 1:20:03 2020-03-14
12 Lecture 12: Distributed Transactions 1:17:24 2020-03-18
13 Lecture 13: Spanner 1:19:07 2020-04-07
14 Lecture 14: Optimistic Concurrency Control 1:22:37 2020-04-10
15 Lecture 15: Big Data: Spark 1:08:13 2020-04-14
16 Lecture 16: Cache Consistency: Memcached at Facebook 1:18:01 2020-04-17
17 Lecture 17: COPS, Causal Consistency 1:23:29 2020-04-28
18 Lecture 18: Fork Consistency, Certificate Transparency 1:13:40 2020-04-30
19 Lecture 19: Bitcoin 56:54 2020-05-06
20 Lecture 20: Blockstack 1:19:01 2020-05-08
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