Top Distributed Systems Courses you should take in 2025

Courses are a great way to deepen your understanding of a Distributed Systems. They are designed to be comprehensive and cover a wide range of topics. Here are the top 10 Distributed Systems courses to consider in 2025.

List of Distributed Systems Courses

Distributed Systems courses are plentiful and varied. Here are the top 10 Distributed Systems courses to consider in 2025.

Fault tolerance

With this course, you will be introduced to the basics of fault tolerance. You will learn about the concepts of design and implementation of fault tolerance mechanisms in general systems are introduced. You’ll get to know the quantitative and qualitative methodology which is used in the evaluation …

Django Celery Mastery: Python Asynchronous Task Processing

Unlocking the Power of Asynchronous Task Processing with Python Celery

Akka Classic Essentials with Scala

Learn the classic Akka actor model with Scala and write parallel, concurrent and fault-tolerant systems

Distributed Systems & Cloud Computing with Java

Learn Distributed Java Applications at Scale, Parallel Programming, Distributed Computing & Cloud Software Architecture

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Jaeger - Distributed Tracing for Cloud Native Applications

Monitor, troubleshoot complex distributed transactions and context propagation with performance & latency optimization

Distributed algorithms

Distributed algorithms are algorithms designed to run on multiple processors, without tight centralized control. In general, they are harder to design and harder to understand than single-processor sequential algorithms. Distributed algorithms are used in many practical systems, ranging from large …

Distributed systems courses

Parallel, concurrent, and distributed programming underlies software in multiple domains, ranging from biomedical research to financial services. This specialization is intended for anyone with a basic knowledge of sequential programming in Java, who is motivated to learn how to write parallel, co…

advanced topics

Explaining the world means thinking with scientific principles — but usually they're cloaked in technical manipulations. In this course we'll dispense with number-crunching and mathematics in search of something more useful: physical insight. There are no prerequisites for this course — in it you'l…

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Distributed Tasks Demystified with Celery, SQS & Python

Conjure up your first Python scalable background worker

Big Data courses

Do you need to understand big data and how it will impact your business? This Specialization is for you. You will gain an understanding of what insights big data can provide through hands-on experience with the tools and systems used by big data scientists and engineers. Previous programming experi…

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Hi! I'm Andrew, Senior Software Engineer in Databricks. I have more than 14 years of experience building complex large-scale distributed web applications, conducted more than 400+ interviews for FAANG companies and have an experience leading the team of engineers in tech companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Databricks, PandaDoc and …

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Senior Software Engineer at GitHub Actions. I build distributed systems and tooling for platform engineering and developer experience, improving how teams deploy and scale cloud-native workloads. I’m especially interested in Go, Kubernetes, networking, containers, and observability. I also maintain a strong interest in emerging technologies like Rust, eBPF, and WebAssembly …

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