Re:Ask HN: What are good resources to learn system design?
by x87678r on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @08:56AM
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So many recommendations for this book but I really didn't like it, very theoretical. It lists a lot of the main data related software systems and how they work, but that seemed about it. I really expected comparisons and tradeoffs, eg when should you switch from using a database to a message queue to Kafka? No real world examples or design experience.
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Re:Ask HN: What are good resources to learn system design?
by throw_this_one on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @10:11AM
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Groupthink. Just like that book about sleep and whatever other pop pseudo intellectual books are repeated on here.
Re:Ask HN: What are good resources to learn system design?
by aprdm on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @04:17PM
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Everything is so case specific. And at the same time most of the tools work pretty well for the scale of most companies to the point they it doesn’t matter when you chose what...
Because of those two I don’t know exactly what people expect apart from either specific use cases ( conferences , blogs , etc.) or generic fundamentals (the book).
Re:Ask HN: What are good resources to learn system design?
by diehunde on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:00AM
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Sounds like you didn't read the book. There's actually a section with the title "Message brokers compared to databases" with a detailed comparison.
Re:Ask HN: What are good resources to learn system design?
by x87678r on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:22PM
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I can't see in the ToC https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...