MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems course
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Free MIT lectures and assignments on distributed systems, recommended for learning Raft and core concepts.
Free MIT lectures and assignments on distributed systems, recommended for learning Raft and core concepts.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Covers core distributed systems concepts
“I finished the assignments in that course and that covers all the important aspects like processes”
Comment from 26 Dec 2025 in “LearnixOS” “I have learnt more about Distributed Systems just by "auditing" this course.”
Comment from 14 Jul 2026 in “Paxos Made Simple (2001)[pdf]” Hands-on assignments worth completing
“I finished the assignments in that course and that covers all the important aspects like processes”
Comment from 26 Dec 2025 in “LearnixOS” “Try doing the assignments from MIT 6.5840 Distributed Systems course”
Comment from 15 Sep 2026 in “Distributed Systems Classics (2017)” Highly recommended overall
“It is an amazing course though!”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm” “Highly recommend this course.”
Comment from 15 Sep 2026 in “Distributed Systems Classics (2017)”
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What people said
10 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Try doing the assignments from MIT 6.5840 Distributed Systems course”
“Highly recommend this course.”
“they update the reading list every year, and it's always great”
“The 6.824 lecture series is pretty hard to discover, too”
“I have learnt more about Distributed Systems just by "auditing" this course.”
“More enjoyable to read this within a broader context”
“it's worthwhile for reasoning through hard problems like this”
“I finished the assignments in that course and that covers all the important aspects like processes”
“The MIT course for Raft (with the lectures on YouTube) was great to learn for me”
“It is an amazing course though!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.