Start learning about Theory of Distributed Systems?

What's the best way that anyone can do to have a good introduction to the theory of distributed system, any books or references, and topics should be covered first and requirements to start learning in this topic.

Roger Wattenhofer's Principles of Distributed Computing lecture collection is also a good place to start.

It is freely available online, it assumes no prior knowledge on the area, and the material is very well up-to-date — it even covers some results that were presented at conferences a couple of months ago.

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