Interesting! I'd love to take a structured distributed systems MOOC or course in a modern language well suited for the domain like Rust, Go, Scala or Elixir/Erlang. Does anyone know if something like this already exists?
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpl804R-ZwjKCOwWpTZ21...