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Lecture 1: Introduction

MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems · lecture · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

The opening lecture of MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems (Spring 2020), introducing the course and core challenges of distributed systems. It begins a playlist that goes on to cover Raft and other consensus papers in Go.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as the standard free course for learning distributed systems from real papers.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 6 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “MIT online trainig has this great YouTube playlist on distributed systems”

    Great MIT distributed systems playlist including Raft

    taude, 2020-12 · Recommendation · in “Raft Visualization”

  2. “MIT has published their recent Distr. Systems lectures[0] on youtube.”

    MIT lectures covering time-tested papers

    yes_but_no, 2021-02 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Recommended books and papers on distributed systems?”

  3. “Not from stanford but I enjoyed these”

    Learn systems from real-world design examples

    uyt, 2021-06 · Recommendation · in “Stanford CS Curriculum 2021”

  4. “As a noob, I learned a lot from these.”

    Breaks down complex topics approachably

    avinassh, 2023-04 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What's the best textbook or video lectures on a topic you've come seen?”

  5. “Good resources for understanding Distributed Systems”

    Builds solid understanding of consensus, causality and split brain

    bigmutant, 2025-02 · Recommendation · in “Distributed systems programming has stalled”

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Topics: mit 6.824, raft, consensus, go, course

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