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 di

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.