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You probably might want to read this (for free): http://book.mixu.net/distsys/single-page.html http://book.mixu.net/distsys/single-page.html And pay a little to read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable/dp/1449373321 http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-... And this one: http://www.amazon.com/Big-Data-Principles-practices-scalable/dp/1617290343 http://www.amazon.com/Big-Data-Principles-practices-scalable... Nathan Marz brought Apache Storm to the world, and Martin Kleppmann is pretty well known for his work on Kafka. Both are very good books on building scalable data processing systems.