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Distributed Systems Lecture 1 Summary

Backrub, which became Google, was founded in 1997.
The Cloud is not amorphous, but consists of companies such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.
Facebook's Prineville data center has $250M physical infrastructure and $1B IT infrastructure.
Distributed systems provide higher-level abstractions to hide complexity, scalability, reliability, well-defined semantics, and security.
The goal of distributed systems is to appear as a single coherent system to its users.
A distributed system is characterized by no shared memory, message-based communication, each running its own local OS, and heterogeneity.
To present a single-system image, a distributed system hides internal organization and communication details while providing a uniform interface.
A distributed system is organized as middleware, running on all machines and offering a uniform interface to the system.
The course aims to teach the principles and techniques behind the design of modern, reliable, and high-performance systems, with a focus on distributed systems.
The course references books such as The Go Programming Language and Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms.
The course prohibits copying another person's programs, comments, README description, or any part of submitted assignments, and publishing code on Github during/after the course.
MapReduce is a case study in data-parallel programming at scale, where partial aggregation is used to compute word counts from individual files in parallel, merge intermediate output, and compute word count on merged intermediates.

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Test your knowledge of distributed systems with this quiz! From the basics of message-based communication to the principles and techniques behind designing modern, reliable, and high-performance systems, this quiz covers it all. See how much you know about the Cloud, middleware, and the goal of appearing as a single coherent system to users. Don't forget to brush up on data-parallel programming with the MapReduce case study. Put your skills to the test and take this quiz now!