1.ashishps1 / awesome-system-design-resources
Learn System Design concepts and prepare for interviews using free resources.
+3,009 stars
from 40,011 · score 8.01
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2.binhnguyennus / awesome-scalability
The Patterns of Scalable, Reliable, and Performant Large-Scale Systems
+2,562 stars
from 72,719 · score 7.85
3.systemdesign42 / system-design-academy
If you want to become good at AI engineering & system design, join this newsletter 👇
+2,368 stars
from 27,127 · score 7.77
4.temporalio / temporal
Temporal service
+2,110 stars
from 22,010 · score 7.65
5.karanpratapsingh / system-design
Learn how to design systems at scale and prepare for system design interviews
+1,730 stars
from 45,014 · score 7.46
6.redis / redis
For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure server, and document and vector query engine.
+1,565 stars
from 75,568 · score 7.36
7.spacedriveapp / spacedrive
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.
+867 stars
from 38,499 · score 6.77
8.conductor-oss / conductor
Conductor is an event driven agentic workflow engine providing durable and highly resilient execution engine for applications and AI Agents
+679 stars
from 31,721 · score 6.52
9.Vonng / ddia
《Designing Data-Intensive Application》DDIA 第一版 / 第二版 中文翻译
+651 stars
from 23,240 · score 6.48
10.nats-io / nats-server
High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.
+648 stars
from 20,331 · score 6.48
11.hatchet-dev / hatchet
🪓 An orchestration engine for background tasks, AI agents, and durable workflows
+570 stars
from 7,641 · score 6.35
12.encoredev / encore
Infrastructure orchestration from local to your cloud
+529 stars
from 12,147 · score 6.27
13.etcd-io / etcd
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
+491 stars
from 51,947 · score 6.20
14.restatedev / restate
Restate is the platform for building resilient applications that tolerate all infrastructure faults w/o the need for a PhD.
+409 stars
from 4,232 · score 6.02
15.juicedata / juicefs
JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3.
+360 stars
from 14,235 · score 5.89
16.dmlc / xgboost
Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library, for Python, R, Java, Scala, C and more. Runs on single machine, Hadoop, Spark, Dask, Flink and DataFlow
+358 stars
from 28,575 · score 5.88
17.doocs / advanced-java
😮 Core Interview Questions & Answers For Experienced Java(Backend) Developers | 互联网 Java 工程师进阶知识完全扫盲：涵盖高并发、分布式、高可用、微服务、海量数据处理等领域知识
+356 stars
from 78,815 · score 5.88
18.theanalyst / awesome-distributed-systems
A curated list to learn about distributed systems
+335 stars
from 12,091 · score 5.82
19.trinodb / trino
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
+329 stars
from 13,061 · score 5.80
20.madd86 / awesome-system-design
A curated list of awesome System Design (A.K.A. Distributed Systems) resources.
+298 stars
from 12,347 · score 5.70
21.authzed / spicedb
Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired database for scalably storing and querying fine-grained authorization data
+287 stars
from 6,897 · score 5.66
22.rqlite / rqlite
The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highly available with minimal effort.
+281 stars
from 17,623 · score 5.64
23.bigscience-workshop / petals
🌸 Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style. Fine-tuning and inference up to 10x faster than offloading
+240 stars
from 10,439 · score 5.48
24.dapr / dapr
Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration.
+232 stars
from 25,940 · score 5.45
25.cadence-workflow / cadence
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.
+162 stars
from 9,372 · score 5.09
26.vesoft-inc / nebula
A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability
+159 stars
from 12,305 · score 5.08
27.apache / dubbo
The java implementation of Apache Dubbo. An RPC and microservice framework.
+138 stars
from 41,443 · score 4.93
28.dotnet / orleans
Cloud Native application framework for .NET
+125 stars
from 10,794 · score 4.84
29.ag2ai / faststream
Asynchronous Python framework for event-driven services. A thin client for Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, Redis and MQTT with full access to native broker features, plus AsyncAPI docs, in-memory tests and observability out of the box.
+109 stars
from 5,282 · score 4.70
30.taubyte / tau
Fullstack Workspace for Humans & Machines
+108 stars
from 5,074 · score 4.69
31.PeerDB-io / peerdb
Fast, Simple and a cost effective tool to replicate data from Postgres to Data Warehouses, Queues and Storage
+98 stars
from 3,215 · score 4.60
32.ty4z2008 / Qix
Machine Learning、Deep Learning、PostgreSQL、Distributed System、Node.Js、Golang
+90 stars
from 15,146 · score 4.51
33.ergo-services / ergo
An actor-based Framework with network transparency for creating event-driven architecture in Golang. Inspired by Erlang. Zero dependencies.
+82 stars
from 4,610 · score 4.42
34.apache / zookeeper
Apache ZooKeeper
+79 stars
from 12,747 · score 4.38
35.p-org / P
The P programming language.
+77 stars
from 3,648 · score 4.36
36.pingcap / talent-plan
open source training courses about distributed database and distributed systems
+76 stars
from 10,956 · score 4.34
37.etcd-io / raft
Raft library for maintaining a replicated state machine
+68 stars
from 1,080 · score 4.23
38.nsqio / nsq
A realtime distributed messaging platform
+60 stars
from 25,712 · score 4.11
39.pixie-io / pixie
Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability
+59 stars
from 6,493 · score 4.09
40.MaterializeInc / materialize
The live data layer for apps and AI agents. Create up-to-the-second views into your business, just using SQL
+56 stars
from 6,336 · score 4.04
41.hazelcast / hazelcast
Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
+45 stars
from 6,582 · score 3.83
42.apache / pekko
Build highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications using Java/Scala
+45 stars
from 1,616 · score 3.83
43.asynkron / protoactor-go
Proto Actor - Ultra fast distributed actors for Go, C# and Java/Kotlin
+42 stars
from 5,477 · score 3.76
44.SeleniumHQ / docker-selenium
Provides a simple way to run Selenium Grid with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge using Container Platform, making it easier to perform browser automation at scale
+40 stars
from 8,620 · score 3.71
45.absmach / magistrala
IoT Platform Framework
+40 stars
from 2,618 · score 3.71
46.fluvio-community / fluvio
🦀 event stream processing for developers to collect and transform data in motion to power responsive data intensive applications.
+38 stars
from 5,222 · score 3.66
47.Netflix / conductorArchived
Conductor is a microservices orchestration engine.
+37 stars
from 12,715 · score 3.64
48.anthdm / hollywood
Blazingly fast and light-weight Actor engine written in Golang
+36 stars
from 2,311 · score 3.61
49.akka / akka-core
A platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. SDK, libraries, and hosted environments.
+30 stars
from 13,253 · score 3.43
50.cometbft / cometbft
CometBFT: A distributed, Byzantine fault-tolerant, deterministic state machine replication engine. A fork and successor to Tendermint Core.
+27 stars
from 906 · score 3.33
51.Tochemey / goakt
[Go]Distributed Actor/Grain framework for Golang with goodies
+27 stars
from 363 · score 3.33
52.anoma / anoma
Reference implementation of Anoma
+25 stars
from 33,528 · score 3.26
53.mjebrahimi / Awesome-Microservices-DotNet
💎 A collection of awesome training series, articles, videos, books, courses, sample projects, and tools for Microservices in .NET
+24 stars
from 3,064 · score 3.22
54.bloomberg / blazingmq
A modern high-performance open source message queuing system
+23 stars
from 3,197 · score 3.18
55.moleculerjs / moleculer
:rocket: Progressive microservices framework for Node.js
+22 stars
from 6,362 · score 3.14
56.lonng / nano
Lightweight, facility, high performance golang based game server framework
+22 stars
from 3,204 · score 3.14
57.tendermint / tendermint
⟁ Tendermint Core (BFT Consensus) in Go
+21 stars
from 5,846 · score 3.09
58.build-trust / ockam
Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.
+18 stars
from 4,621 · score 2.94
59.lni / dragonboat
A feature complete and high performance multi-group Raft library in Go.
+16 stars
from 5,314 · score 2.83
60.easegress-io / easegress
A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system. (CNCF Project)
+15 stars
from 5,857 · score 2.77
61.pyeventsourcing / eventsourcing
A library for event sourcing in Python.
+14 stars
from 1,675 · score 2.71
62.chrislusf / gleam
Fast, efficient, and scalable distributed map/reduce system, DAG execution, in memory or on disk, written in pure Go, runs standalone or distributedly.
+12 stars
from 3,558 · score 2.56
63.faust-streaming / faust
Python Stream Processing. A Faust fork
+11 stars
from 1,879 · score 2.48
64.kurtosis-tech / kurtosis
A platform for packaging and launching blockchain infra. Think docker compose for blockchain
+11 stars
from 546 · score 2.48
65.gojek / heimdall
An enhanced HTTP client for Go
+10 stars
from 2,765 · score 2.40
66.asynkron / protoactor-dotnet
Proto Actor - Ultra fast distributed actors for Go, C# and Java/Kotlin
+10 stars
from 1,888 · score 2.40
67.aregtech / areg-sdk
Distributed C++ services from embedded to enterprise
+10 stars
from 358 · score 2.40
68.sger / ElixirBooks
List of Elixir books
+9 stars
from 1,479 · score 2.30
69.linkedin / brooklin
An extensible distributed system for reliable nearline data streaming at scale
+9 stars
from 963 · score 2.30
70.FoundatioFx / Foundatio
Pluggable foundation blocks for building distributed apps.
+8 stars
from 2,096 · score 2.20
71.robinhood / faust
Python Stream Processing
+7 stars
from 6,816 · score 2.08
72.whitfin / cachex
A powerful caching library for Elixir with support for transactions, fallbacks and expirations
+7 stars
from 1,738 · score 2.08
73.Particular / NServiceBus
The gold standard for async .NET microservices on Azure, AWS and on-prem
+6 stars
from 2,163 · score 1.95
74.gaia-pipeline / gaiaArchived
Build powerful pipelines in any programming language.
+5 stars
from 5,208 · score 1.79
75.liftbridge-io / liftbridge
Kafka-style message streaming in Go. Built on NATS. Single binary, no JVM, no ZooKeeper.
+5 stars
from 2,799 · score 1.79
76.Netflix / genie
Distributed Big Data Orchestration Service
+5 stars
from 1,763 · score 1.79
77.uwplse / verdi-raft
An implementation of the Raft distributed consensus protocol, verified in Coq using the Verdi framework
+5 stars
from 199 · score 1.79
78.autokitteh / autokittehArchived
Durable workflow automation in just a few lines of code
+4 stars
from 1,135 · score 1.61
79.eigr / spawn
Spawn - Actor Mesh
+4 stars
from 373 · score 1.61
80.weyoss / redis-smq
RedisSMQ: A high-performance Redis message queue for Node.js
+3 stars
from 668 · score 1.39
81.hyperonym / ratus
Ratus is a RESTful asynchronous task queue server. It translated concepts of distributed task queues into a set of resources that conform to REST principles and provides a consistent HTTP API for various backends.
+3 stars
from 124 · score 1.39
82.gigya / microdotArchived
Microdot: An open source .NET microservices framework
+2 stars
from 1,534 · score 1.10
83.cristianoliveira / ergo
The management of multiple apps running over different ports made easy
+2 stars
from 649 · score 1.10
84.scalecube / scalecube-services
Microservices library - scalecube-services is a high throughput, low latency reactive microservices library built to scale. It features: API-Gateways, service-discovery, service-load-balancing, the architecture supports plug-and-play service communication modules and features. built to provide performance and low-latency real-time stream-processing
+2 stars
from 637 · score 1.10
85.uwplse / verdi
A framework for formally verifying distributed systems implementations in Coq
+2 stars
from 625 · score 1.10
86.elpheria / rpc-websockets
JSON-RPC 2.0 implementation over WebSockets for Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript
+2 stars
from 624 · score 1.10
87.Abc-Arbitrage / Zebus
A lightweight Peer to Peer Service Bus
+2 stars
from 332 · score 1.10
88.mgillr / crdt-merge
Conflict-free merge for DataFrames, JSON, ML models & distributed agents — powered by CRDTs. The first merge library where every operation is mathematically guaranteed to converge.
+2 stars
from 5 · score 1.10
89.sheharyarn / memento
Simple + Powerful interface to the Mnesia Distributed Database 💾
+1 stars
from 796 · score 0.69
90.capillariesio / capillaries
Distributed batch data processing framework
+1 stars
from 73 · score 0.69
91.vadiminshakov / committer
Two-phase (2PC) and three-phase (3PC) protocols implementaion in Golang
+1 stars
from 44 · score 0.69