TDDD25 Distributed Systems (6 ECTS)

2026 VT

Organization

The course consists of 12 lectures (Fö), 1 lesson (Le), and 10 laboratory sessions (La). The course gives 6 points in total. You will get 4 points for the examination and 2 points for the programming project. The course language is English.

Literature

Recommended literature (2026):

• Maarten van Steen and Andrew S. Tanenbaum: "Distributed Systems" 4th Edition, distributed-systems.net, 2023.

Alternatively, the following book (the previous course book) can be used, too:

• George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, Gordon Blair: "Distributed Systems - Concepts and Design" 5th Edition, Addison Wesley Publishing Comp., 2011.

Reading Directions

• For van Steen and Tanenbaum, 4th edition, and Colouris et al., 5th edition: [PDF]
• For Coulouris et al., 4th edition: [PDF]

Additional references for further reading

The following articles can complement the course book material.

• About serverless computing:
  J. Schleier-Smith et al.: What Serverless Computing Is and Should Become: The Next Phase of Cloud Computing. Comm. ACM 64(5), May 2021.
• ... to be continued ...

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Last updated: 2026-01-19