This book is a modern survey on practical distributed systems. I knew bits of pieces of the material going in, but the way it was brought together was just mast

This book is a modern survey on practical distributed systems. I knew bits of pieces of the material going in, but the way it was brought together was just masterful. It will not appeal to the absolute novice to be sure. But for anyone else who has worked on systems for moving data (ETL, streams) and storing data (databases and other data stores), this book will show you how things (probably stuff you've done bits of pieces of) fit together and expound on the few foundational big ideas that makes everything cohere. Once you've understood that, you are on your way to designing data systems that are much cleaner and more scalable. My experience reading this book is a bit like that of a tradesperson going back to school to learn theory, and after being enlightened, coming away with a new understanding of how to put together theory and practice to better his craft. I chanced upon this book through an excellent interview Martin Kleppmann did on Software Engineering Daily podcast. If you want the talk-show-host cliff notes version of what the book is about, you should listen to this particular episode: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/05/02/data-intensive-applications-with-martin-kleppmann/ https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/05/02/data-intensi...