I like that he talked about the effort that went into working out the details of each chapter. He worked on Rapportive, Kafka, Samza, Bottled Water and I’m sure many other projects. But still had to put years into the book.
“Those are the sort of high-level topics that were clear from my initial book proposal to the publisher. The details within each chapter, that is something that I often figured out once I got to that chapter. So, I wrote one chapter at a time and started each chapter with just a lot of background research to actually get up to speed on the topic myself. And it’s often only then that, say, for replication, I decided, okay, well, it seems like the three major ways of doing this are single-leader, multi-leader, or leaderless. I would decide on that structure essentially while writing each chapter and then try to fit the various points I wanted to make into this narrative structure.”
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
Building distributed systems at scale is about assuming that the unlikely will happen - because at scale, it probably will! Great take from Marin Kleppmann:
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