Some More Things to Discover

At the risk of being unfair to other systems and material out there, we would like to mention CockroachDB as one system that has a lot of public material demonstrating how they have used theoretical concepts in practice. Some concrete examples are implementation of pipelined consensus and a parallelized version of two-phase commit that required a single round-trip instead of two before acknowledging a commit. Some resources that contain a lot of practical information to build and operate distributed systems are the Amazon Builders Library and papers by ...