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It's not exactly what you're asking for but if you want to grok distributed systems and managing workloads then learning some Erlang/Elixir (OTP runtime) really helped me, as you can "code along" with your book of choice and they handle real-world situations like node failure and backpressure management.

Other topics that come to mind are books about building out microservice architectures. There are certainly plenty of war stories out there and micro-services seem to tend towards re-implementing OTP runtime primitives in arbitrary languages as design patterns, so you get even more of a feel for what's going on at a lower level of abstraction.