An interview I gave while promoting Hydra conference, on the topics of distributed systems, Hydra and other things (in Russian).

Video link — https://youtu.be/BP00xihSQo8

# References

These references came up during discussion and questions.

# Books

• “Distributed systems for fun and profit”
  This short book will give you a good grasp of some theoretical concepts without going too deep. It’s a good starting point to dive into distributed systems.

• “Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work”
  The first part is about single-node databases and not directly about distributed systems. The second part is specifically about distributed systems. One of the great things about this book is its references — lots of good ones to go deep into any topic covered.

• “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”
  It’s almost a classic book at this point. Martin Kleppmann does a great job introducing the reader to fundamental concepts in distributed systems.

# Amazon Aurora

Paper reviews on Amazon Aurora database, with links to papers themselves:

• Amazon Aurora: design considerations for high throughput cloud-native relational databases
• Amazon Aurora: on avoiding distributed consensus for I/Os, commits, and membership changes

# Papers

• Distributed systems theory for the distributed systems engineer
  My deep dive into distributed systems started with this reading list. It maintains a good balance between core theoretical concepts and practical system implementations. Highly recommended.

• Kinetics of Large Clusters
  A blog post from my former colleague on the probability of data loss in a cluster.

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