Streaming (Distributed Systems)

https://twitch.tv/shoutplenty. From May to Sept 2018, I streamed myself learning distributed systems (compsci) from MIT’s coursework.

I also wrote this project up on my programming portfolio.

Progress + Plans

I did 2/4 of the projects, then got a job. The job covered my programming desires, so I was doing other stuff in my free time, but I’d still like to do the rest some day, e.g. if I go unemployed for ages again. I’d cut back on the explanations in order to go faster tho :P.

I MapReduce – ✓
II Raft – ✓
III Key-Value Service (based on II)
IV Sharding (of III)

Material

Project II was pretty interesting: Raft, a consensus algorithm, basically:

A state machine (thing that processes incoming commands) running on a redundant cluster of servers that work as a democracy, electing a leader among themselves to do the actual work and re-electing if it fails.

• Raft Illustration – check this nice 10-min illustrated intro to Raft if you’re curious.
• Raft Blueprint – the spec I was implementing.
• My Raft Notes

Videos + Work

VoDs || Part I: MapReduce | Part II: Raft | YouTube Archive
The full streams, split up into sections.

GitHub repository
Has a readme navigation of the Raft project.

Shoutouts

To Max + Ben for giving me the idea to stream, and to everyone who dropped by to say hi, chat compsci or careers. This shit was fun ya kno.

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