_ Books
Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Distributed Systems, 4th Edition, Maarten van Steen Publishing, 2023 (rev. 2025)
Roberto Vitillo, Understanding Distributed Systems, 2nd Edition, 2023
Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems, O’Reilly Media, 2017
Brendan Burns, Designing Distributed Systems: Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Services, O’Reilly Media, 2018
George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, Gordon Blair, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, 5th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2011, 1080 pages
Ian Gorton, Foundations of Scalable Systems: Designing Distributed Architectures, O’Reilly Media, 2023
Unmesh Joshi, Patterns of Distributed Systems, 2023

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Useful concepts

• Google Sanitizers: https://github.com/google/sanitizers
• pthreads: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/pthreads.7.html
• Linux udp(7) man page: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/udp.7.html
• Linux tcp(7) man page: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/tcp.7.html
• QUIC Working Group (IETF): https://quicwg.org/
• Cloudflare "The Road to QUIC": https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-road-to-quic/
• quiche (Cloudflare, Rust/C): https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche
• ngtcp2 (C): https://github.com/ngtcp2/ngtcp2
• msquic (Microsoft, C): https://github.com/microsoft/msquic
• aioquic (Python): https://github.com/aiortc/aioquic
• RFC 9000 -- QUIC Transport Protocol: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9001
• RFC 9001 -- Using TLS to Secure QUIC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9001
• RFC 9114 -- HTTP/3 (over QUIC): https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9114
• RFC 768 -- UDP specification (the entire spec is 3 pages): https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc768
• RFC 9293 -- TCP specification (2022, replaces RFC 793): https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9293
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming (practical C examples): https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

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Tools

• GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/copilot (create an account using your @info.uaic.ro email address)
• WSL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install or a Linux distribution
• VirtualBox (optional): https://www.virtualbox.org
• Docker / Docker Desktop (optional): https://www.docker.com
• Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/ (or any other IDE; eg. JetBrains)


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