Would also recommend Kleppmann's book. After reading this you should be able to read some foundational papers. [1] is a good list for that.

I also learned a ton by reading the jepsen analyses [2]. [3] is also helpful, but was recently put "behind a paywall" via an O'Reilly online book, but the internet archive should still have all the content ([4]).

[1] https://dancres.github.io/Pages/ [2] https://jepsen.io/analyses [3] https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-sy... [4] https://web.archive.org/web/20230628001937/https://martinfow...