Distributed computing is becoming an increasingly important and complex field within software engineering, with numbers of new data engineering and infrastructure frameworks being released each year. For a beginner, it can be tough to know where to start, so this episode may be considered a primer to learning about distributed systems independently.

Alvaro Videla is a core developer for RabbitMQ and a distributed systems blogger, and he joins Software Engineering Daily to explain some of the core concepts of distributed systems.