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Go issues about Distributed Systems: the project is written in Go and the issue is about Distributed Systems. The list opens on the ones we rated beginner-friendly.

Distributed Systems

Open issues
18.4k
New this week
253
Nobody on it yet
16k
Average difficulty
4.3/5

What this list is like

  • Average annotated difficulty: 4.3/5 across 20,671 issues.
  • 3% of 20,671 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Nov 4, 2026.

About Distributed Systems

Distributed systems run one service across many machines that coordinate over a network. The work covers consensus, replication, scheduling and handling partial failure.

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How many Distributed Systems issues are open here?
18,411 open issues: 253 opened in the last seven days, and 15,964 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
Where do I start?
Pick an issue marked beginner-friendly, read the project's contributing guide and comment before you begin. The contributor guide walks through it, from choosing an issue to your first pull request.
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