If you read https://www.worldcat.org/title/designing-data-intensive-applications-the-big-ideas-behind-reliable-scalable-and-maintainable-systems/oclc/1042165662

If you read https://www.worldcat.org/title/designing-data-intensive-applications-the-big-ideas-behind-reliable-scalable-and-maintainable-systems/oclc/1042165662 https://www.worldcat.org/title/designing-data-intensive-appl... you are probably ready to read research articles of basic concepts that Tanenbaum's book references. When doing my MSc in CS at Uppsala University we implemented a distributed system. We used Tanenbaum's book and while very good it was a bit terse on details. Looking up the actual research papers referenced was helpful during implementations.