Patterns of Distributed Systems

Over the last few months, my colleague Unmesh Joshi has been running
workshops to teach developers about distributed systems design. In this
work he's been delving into many open-source distributed systems and
identifying patterns. As he writes them up, he's publishing the patterns
on my site.

Today he's publishing an initial narrative article that ties the first
batch of patterns together, and two of these patterns: Heartbeat and
Generation Clock. He has another handful of patterns close to publication
that he hops to publish over the next few weeks, and more will come as he
continues to develop this work.

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