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I have been writing a book about the fundamentals of large-scale distributed systems over the past couple of years. It’s not a best seller, but thanks to it, I connected with engin…

Maybe "practical" is more appropriate than "modern" :) Among other things, the book discusses topics such rate limiting, testing, monitoring, and observability. Those are important…

Hey HN! I'm excited to share Understanding Distributed Systems: a modern introduction to building distributed large scale applications that brings together theory and real-world pr…

"Understanding Distributed Systems" tries to bring together theoretical aspects on the topic (like consensus and consistency models) with practical ones, such as resiliency mechani…

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