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Designing Distributed Systems E-Book

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A direct link[0] to the PDF in case someone doesn't want to fill out the form: https://azure.microsoft.com/mediahandler/files/resourcefiles...

[0] - Always subject to change of course

Thank you. I hope more companies would abandon the form-then-download approach, and understand that if someone is interested in the products, people will eventually get in touch.

edit: typo

But then how will they mine emails for sales leads?

Lead nurturing.. Or how Cal from the 40 Year Old Virgin puts it: You've gotta wait till the seed grows into a plant. Then you've gotta f* the plant.

Can someone compare this to Martin Kleppman's awesome book "Designing Data Intensive Applications"? I'm wondering if this book is like the old IBM, etc. whitepapers which quietly tried to sell technologies from the writer's company?

I think Designing Data Intensive Applications covers more than this, but this still looks interesting, perhaps a potentially nice (and free) read before diving into the other one. Doesn't seem whitepaper-y at all.

The books are similar but very different at the same time.

Martin's book takes an application focused approach. How do I think about changes to my data in a distributed environment? You can see this thinking in the projects he's been involved with on Kafka and at LinkedIn.

Brendan, however take on distributed system is from the angle of heterogenous distributed workloads and the architectural blocks needed for running such systems reliably. Note that Burns worked at Google and was one of the founders of Kubernetes so you will find a bit of a container orchestration slant in the book too.

Another short read I like that's more focused on theory is this: http://book.mixu.net/distsys/

This is surprisingly informative.

I still prefer classical scientific books. This book is too much tool driven. I need the actual concept.

Like which ones? And I do agree but going from theory to practice can be super tricky.

A while ago, I answered the same question on Quora[0]. I listed my favorite ones there. And if you are interested into database systems checkout [1].

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-books-on-Distribute...

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-reading-list-for-distributed...

Every book has its own merit (well, I will backtrack by saying some technical books are really bad), though thanks for the recommendation. This E-Book is primarily an introduction using common/trendy technologies in practice. Not a deep-dive or theoretical studies of <name> distributed system.

Designing Data Intensive applications seemed to me a like a good balance between too academic and too practical. It was at perfect level of abstraction for me.

Seconded. One of the best technical books I've ever read. Wish more were like that.

Agreed, that is the best book O'Reilly ever put out. An example of how grown up Engineering books should be written.

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