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That seems really unfair to Kleppmann. I know of all three, and all three are, at the very least, accomplished distributed systems researchers with several peer
by maxov 6y ago
That seems really unfair to Kleppmann. I know of all three, and all three are, at the very least, accomplished distributed systems researchers with several peer-reviewed publications. (They still have different levels of expertise/publications depending on the area, of course)
In a different arena, I also know of no better book at the interface of distributed systems theory and practice than Kleppmann's. It's useful for engineers while being enriched by deep references to the literature. If that doesn't demonstrate mastery, I don't know what does.
- georgewfraser 6y agoOK, my comment was over the top, apologies to Kleppmann if you’re still reading. He is a thought leader, and he’s the first introduction to distributed systems for a lot of people, and sometimes people stop with his work and don’t learn how much depth this field has. But that’s not really a criticism of him. And nobody should be compared to Nassim Taleb, I was clearly letting the heat wave get to me ;)
- kronski 6y agoTo anyone cutting their distributed-systems teeth on Kleppmann's excellent Designing Data-Intensive Applications: each chapter ends with an essential references section (which include multiple citations to Abadi and Pavlo!). The book chapters do an solid job laying the ground-work for those papers. The depth is in those references. Read them if you can!