I read through it and really enjoyed the way it was both a tour of the landscape, but also went into real distinctive attributes of why the 10 different X (message formats, pubsub architectures, etc) exist and what each one gains and loses by the choices it made.
For a more prestigious review:
“This book is awesome. It bridges the huge gap between distributed systems theory and practical engineering. I wish it had existed a decade ago, so I could have read it then and saved myself all the mistakes along the way.”
— Jay Kreps, Creator of Apache Kafka and CEO of Confluent
For a more prestigious review:
“This book is awesome. It bridges the huge gap between distributed systems theory and practical engineering. I wish it had existed a decade ago, so I could have read it then and saved myself all the mistakes along the way.”