MIT Distributed Systems Pt 1. - Map Reduce and VM Fault Tolerance

I am working through the MIT distributed systems lab, and I wanted to share my experience and post on some cool things that I’ve been learning. I really appreciate courses that post all their materials online, so out of respect for the course, I wont be sharing any of my code online. I figure this will take up a big chunk of my time, however, so I want to log my journey through the course. The…