[ra_men]

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

[nkmnz]

I've seen the book is available on audible. Do you think it's possible to benefit from the audiobook?

[Wintereise]

Likely not, it's a book that relies on the visual representations of how things are laid out a bit too often.

What that means in practical terms is that you'll be presented with diagrams and need to pause and think what they really mean.

This context will likely not be translated well in the audio form.

[rahimnathwani]

I'd imagine the audiobook wouldn't be as good as the paper version of this book because:

- I find I often want to go back to earlier sections, to review a concept that's relevant to the current part, and

- Much of the information has structure that's hard to keep straight without pages and text formatting

[MichaelMoser123]

i see quite a bit of overlap between the book and his lecture series on distributed systems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEAMfLPZZhE&list=PLeKd45zvjc...

These lectures give a more theory based approach, while the book is more based on discussing practical systems; now both are covering distributed systems as such.

Now the distributed system audio course on youtube is extremely accessible (i listened to them while taking walks with our dog)

The book is also great, Kleppmann is writing in a very accessible style.

[Wonnk13]

This and Database Internals. I'm more of a sales engineer that continues to flirt with moving to engineering full-time. These two books have really opened my eyes to both better system design and implementation details.

[strikelaserclaw]

its a tough book, i had to read some of the later chapters many times but it definitely expanded made me a better engineer

[hintymad]

This is indeed a great book.

[arvinsim]

I am on frontend ATM but still learned a lot that is applicable from this book.