As an aside, the audiobook version of this is really well done. You'll probably get more out of the actual book, but I really enjoyed having this on my long runs.

Yep. I distinctly remember the few times I spent washing the car listening to this.

I have never considered an audio book for something technical like this. My interest is piqued.

Also from Martin Kleppmann is this lecture series and accompanying notes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKd45zvjcDFUEv_ohr_H...

I also have the book, and can recommend both!

Anything from Martin is good; he bridges the academic and industry worlds, having worked extensively in both. He’s a big part of “Automerge” if you’re interested in Conflict Free Replicated Datatypes (CRDT’s) which is a relatively new development in the distributed space. The video on Google Spanner is also extremely interesting for a modern New SQL style database.

I knew about him from his work on CRDTs, had no idea he was the same person who wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Impressive dude.

> I think you will be loaded for the bear

I'm misunderstanding this, please explain!

It takes a big gun/bullet to hunt a bear, so you're well prepared aka "have the big guns out".

Typically just written as “loaded for bear”, implying readiness for anything smaller than bear and perhaps even multiple bears! :)

Which OS book would you recommend? Anything similar to the DDIA style (not too academic)?

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces is very good

Martin Kleppmann is an advisor to the Bluesky distributed social network, which has an open protocol and open source code that one can browse, run, and connect to as a supplement to the book if one desires: https://github.com/bluesky-social