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Distributed Systems Handbook

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I. Foundations & The Laws of Physics
II. Communication Protocols & API Design
III. Data Management & Consistency
IV. Data Processing Architectures
V. Coordination & Consensus
VI. Microservice Architecture Patterns
VII. Resilience & Production Engineering
VIII. Observability
IX. Container Orchestration & Kubernetes
X. Service Mesh & Network Security
XI. Security Architecture
XII. Deployment Strategies & Operations
XIII. Case Studies
- Part Overview
- 13.1. Messaging Platform: Apache Kafka
- 13.2. Distributed Key-Value Store: DynamoDB / Cassandra
- 13.3. Microservices at Scale: Netflix, Uber, Airbnb
- 13.4. Real-Time Analytics Platforms
- 13.5. Distributed SQL: Spanner & CockroachDB
- 13.6. Anatomy of Famous Outages

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