Understanding Distributed Systems, Second Edition: What every developer should know about large distributed applications

This book is a comprehensive guide for developers working on the backend of web or mobile applications, providing them with the necessary knowledge to build large-scale distributed systems that can handle millions of requests per second and billions of devices.

The author shares their experience in building such systems and provides just enough details and external references to help readers dive deeper into the subject matter.

With this book, developers can avoid spending hours debugging and re-architecting their applications, learning hard lessons that could have been acquired much faster and less painfully.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this book is essential for anyone looking to build scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systems.