It was surprising that Kleppman's book was mentioned only at the very end of the article, but at least it came with an understandable caveat. That book is incre

It was surprising that Kleppman's book was mentioned only at the very end of the article, but at least it came with an understandable caveat. That book is incredible - although in all honesty it does require solid foundation of distributed systems to make proper sense. Until you have personally battled with replication lag, real-life impacts of eventual consistency and distributed writes, Data-Intensive Applications feels like a dry theoretical read. If you do come across the book with the scars and lessons, it does open the world up.