Elixir Book Club

Current Book

Think Distributed Systems

by Dominik Tornow

Distributed systems are complex—but they're also everywhere in modern software. A fuzzy understanding of how distributed systems work is no longer an option. Think Distributed Systems helps you develop clear and dependable mental models of distributed systems, so you can reason about complex problems with confidence. You'll be able to reason confidently about your systems, and ensure they're functional, scalable, and always reliable.

In Think Distributed Systems you'll find a beautifully illustrated collection of mental models for:

• Correctness, scalability, and reliability
• Failure detection, and mitigation
• Message processing
• Partitioning and replication
• Consensus