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I don't find most textbooks to be an actually good intro outside of a course setting. For example, I own Andrew Tannenbaum's Distributed System book and a few others of his. But his writing style is too dense for me to make enough progress without giving up.
What other books (probably not textbooks) do you recommend on distributed systems?
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.
* Release It! by Michael Nygard
* System Design Interview by Alex Xu
Concurrency and Scalability for Distributed Systems is on my reading list, it's in early release but I think it's what you want https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/concurrency-and-sc...
I am going to move onto either
* O'Rielly Designing Distributed Systems or
* O'Rielly Architecture Patterns with Python
Could anyone recommend either one?
I am mainly a Python dev (with no particular love for Python), but that doesn't necessarily make me want to use the Python book more. Having code examples I can grok immediately is nice, but I also enjoy the exercise of translating concepts to code myself.
Designing Data Intensive Applications has treated me well, getting me through pretty much every system design interview I have had. I am going to move onto either * O'Rielly Designing Distributed Systems or * O'Rielly Architecture Patterns with Python Could anyone recommend either one? I am mainly a Python dev (with no particular love for Python), but that doesn't necessarily make me want to use the Python book more.…
Designing Data Intensive Applications has treated me well, getting me through pretty much every system design interview I have had. I am going to move onto either * O'Rielly Designing Distributed Systems or * O'Rielly Architecture Patterns with Python Could anyone recommend either one? I am mainly a Python dev (with no particular love for Python), but that doesn't necessarily make me want to use the Python book more.…
I would not recommend Architecture Patterns with Python. Some patterns there are questionable and introduce more complexity. Also, they talk about using Kafka and Service Bus in the book, but never mention an important issue you may face in real implementation: consistency in updating both a message bus and a database that usually is addressed with Outbox pattern https://microservices.io/patterns/data/transactional-outbox....