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Designing Distributed Systems E-Book

155 points by craigkerstiens 9y ago

msumpter 9y ago
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/baf44271-3870-454f-868c-23d48e7672cb/Designing_Distributed_Systems.pdf https://azure.microsoft.com/mediahandler/files/resourcefiles... [0] - Always subject to change of course
- yeukhon 9y ago
  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
  - mhuffman 9y ago
    But then how will they mine emails for sales leads?
    - msumpter 9y ago
      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.
adamnemecek 9y ago
This is surprisingly informative.
- majidazimi 9y ago
  I still prefer classical scientific books. This book is too much tool driven. I need the actual concept.
  - adamnemecek 9y ago
    Like which ones? And I do agree but going from theory to practice can be super tricky.
    - majidazimi 9y ago
      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-Distributed-Systems-for-newbie https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-books-on-Distribute... [1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-reading-list-for-distributed-database-systems https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-reading-list-for-distributed...
      - yeukhon 9y ago
        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.
    - dominotw 9y ago
      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.
      - 20171026 9y ago
        Seconded. One of the best technical books I've ever read. Wish more were like that.
      - zarkov99 9y ago
        Agreed, that is the best book O'Reilly ever put out. An example of how grown up Engineering books should be written.
polskibus 9y ago
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?
- makmanalp 9y ago
  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.
- thinkersilver 9y ago
  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.
makmanalp 9y ago
Another short read I like that's more focused on theory is this: http://book.mixu.net/distsys/ http://book.mixu.net/distsys/
abc_lisper 9y ago
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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/baf44271-3870-454f-868c-23d48e7672cb/Designing_Distributed_Systems.pdf https://azure.microsoft.com/mediahandler/files/resourcefiles... [0] - Always subject to change of course

yeukhon 9y ago
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
- mhuffman 9y ago
  But then how will they mine emails for sales leads?
  - msumpter 9y ago
    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.

adamnemecek 9y ago

This is surprisingly informative.

majidazimi 9y ago
I still prefer classical scientific books. This book is too much tool driven. I need the actual concept.
- adamnemecek 9y ago
  Like which ones? And I do agree but going from theory to practice can be super tricky.
  - majidazimi 9y ago
    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-Distributed-Systems-for-newbie https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-books-on-Distribute... [1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-reading-list-for-distributed-database-systems https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-reading-list-for-distributed...
    - yeukhon 9y ago
      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.
  - dominotw 9y ago
    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.
    - 20171026 9y ago
      Seconded. One of the best technical books I've ever read. Wish more were like that.
    - zarkov99 9y ago
      Agreed, that is the best book O'Reilly ever put out. An example of how grown up Engineering books should be written.

polskibus 9y ago

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?

makmanalp 9y ago
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.
thinkersilver 9y ago
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.

makmanalp 9y ago

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

abc_lisper 9y ago

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