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on April 7, 2017
I've been looking forward to this book since I pre-ordered it last year. Martin is a thought provoking author, and I pre-ordered this book based on some of his blog posts. I've been working on this field on and off for the past few years. Searching for anything online that provides a comprehensive overview of what the hell has happened in the last 10 years in Distributed Storage and Systems is hard. This book has tied large chunks of the bodies of work that stand as pillars for these technologies today. I love that he has structured the content to zoom out from a single host (data structures such as LSM trees, system IO considerations) etc. all the way out to distributed co-ordination (Paxos) and hashing (Virtual nodes). This is the right approach. I've skimmed the chapters, and they contain most material you will likely encounter when working with any modern distributed database. A must-have reference for a professional (or a student) interested and/or working in this field.
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on April 12, 2017
Basically a long survey of the current state of database technologies. Not particularly deep, but very well written. Recommended.
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on April 28, 2017
This book is in my opinion a must read if you want to understand the technology behind data-intensive applications. It examines and explains the reasoning for these technologies, many of which are open source and can be adopted by us the reader. If you want to make smart decisions about implementing the best-fit technologies for data-intensive applications then this book will save you years of trial and error.
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on April 7, 2017
There’s a lot in it I (and many others) already know, but there’s also a fair amount I didn’t know or hadn’t thought of. But even more, the compares and contrasts to all kinds of things (models, implementation features of different products, parsing of architecture features and trade-offs, succinct ways of thinking/understanding paradigms and their uses) are very systematically presented.

A great reference and thought-provoker.
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on May 16, 2017
Since I've leaned Hadoop, Spark, ZooKeeper, RDBMS, many kinds of NoSQL, Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Json, Thrift ... I always feel there are something essential/common, between all of them; and want to sit down to summary all of those, crunch them into something essential.

This book has done this for me, in a much much better way!
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on May 7, 2017
I've read about 450 tech books in my life, wrote couple, and I'm working for cloud companies.
This book is well written and practical. One of the rare book that it isn't too tight to technology but also not written only for PhDs students.
I really recommend that book to anyone interested to know more about distributed systems, how is data handled behind the scene.
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on April 28, 2017
Gave a great overview for all things data related.
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