Mine are Statistical Inference in Computer Age, and Transactional Information Systems. Curious what other books teach us powerful concepts and tools that carry us a long way
These lectures give a more theory based approach, while the book is more based on discussing practical systems; now both are covering distributed systems as such.
Now the distributed system audio course on youtube is extremely accessible (i listened to them while taking walks with our dog)
The book is also great, Kleppmann is writing in a very accessible style.
This and Database Internals. I'm more of a sales engineer that continues to flirt with moving to engineering full-time. These two books have really opened my eyes to both better system design and implementation details.
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Can you provide a short summary please ?
- I find I often want to go back to earlier sections, to review a concept that's relevant to the current part, and
- Much of the information has structure that's hard to keep straight without pages and text formatting
These lectures give a more theory based approach, while the book is more based on discussing practical systems; now both are covering distributed systems as such.
Now the distributed system audio course on youtube is extremely accessible (i listened to them while taking walks with our dog)
The book is also great, Kleppmann is writing in a very accessible style.
What that means in practical terms is that you'll be presented with diagrams and need to pause and think what they really mean.
This context will likely not be translated well in the audio form.