108Course · Foundation
Distributed Systems
The discipline the blockchain sits inside.
Safety and liveness, replication and partition — the vocabulary an engineer needs before writing a line of on-chain code. This course grounds the Scholar in the parent discipline blockchain sits inside.
- 01
Explain replication and sharding.
- 02
Distinguish safety from liveness.
- 03
Recognize partitions in real systems.
Prerequisites
- — Databases.
Pacing
~4 hours.
- IModule
The vocabulary
Terms every distributed engineer uses.
A Note from the Faculty
Every blockchain is a distributed system first.