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Re:Ask HN: Learning about distributed systems? by marsrover on Thursday July 23, 2020 @04:34PM (#23931938)
This was truly one of the greatest, if not the greatest, book on software that I have ever read. I have read it twice at this point and fully intend to read it many more times. It is packed full of incredibly interesting information and written in a way that keeps you interested.

Not only is the main content great, but the references are numerous and open up entirely new sets of material as you progress.

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Re:Ask HN: Learning about distributed systems? by weitzj on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:20PM (#23932388)
And just to extend on the numorous references, this book reminded me what a time saver a good book is compared to lots of googling and blog posts.

I struggled with blog posts on raft, Byzantine fault tolerance, CAP theorem, transactions, serializable, and this book was my enlightenment

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Re:Ask HN: Learning about distributed systems? by bradyo on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:14PM (#23933844)
> this book reminded me what a time saver a good book is compared to lots of googling and blog posts

I had the same reaction! The information density is perfect. If anybody else loved this book and has similar recommendations, please share.

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