This page refers to the 4th edition of Distributed Systems Version 4.02 has been released (February 2024) with various small corrections. This is the fourth edition of “Distributed Systems. We have stayed close to the setup of the third edition, including examples of (part of) existing distributed systems close to where general principles are discussed. For example, we have included material on blockchain systems, and discuss their various components throughout the book. We have, again, used spe...