Topic-Specific Reading Assignment

Source and purpose

Use Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design for failure detection, clocks, agreement, and partial failure. Find topic headings in your edition rather than assuming identical chapter numbering. Start with the module concepts and worked examples; reading should resolve an identified question.

Read, reconstruct, apply

Draw a delayed response that is indistinguishable from a failed node at the observer. Explain why a timeout is suspicion, not proof of death. Describe what a retry can duplicate and which state needs durable identity.

Before opening the source, write your prediction. After reading, close it and reconstruct the mechanism or argument. Then compare your prediction with the guided lab. Preserve a corrected misconception and one remaining question.

Completion and deeper reading

For the compact path, stop when you can explain the mechanism, pass the lab, and solve a changed scenario without the source. For the full-book degree, this task is a checkpoint within your scheduled complete reading, not a replacement for it.

Distinguish a book's conceptual model from a tool's current operational contract. Record the edition or documentation version actually used. Add another source only if it resolves a question that the primary source did not answer.

Required logical-clock extension

Complete Logical clocks and causal evidence, prediction practice and all DS1–DS6 gates. The 20–30-hour package supplies guided Lab 2’s executable core; reuse evidence. Original failure detection, Raft and retry-safe API requirements remain required.