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24 alternatives to I wrote a book about distributed systems
What every developer should know about large distributed applications
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I wrote a book about distributed systems launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The guide for building large, iOS, and Android native apps - with the challenges and common solutions across the industry.
2021 · mobileatscale.com · its alternatives →
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Learn the core transferable skills of setting up Linux virtual servers and Docker containers. Provision web servers, application servers, workers, and databases.
2021 · deploymentfromscratch.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I just wanted to share that after five months of intense work and countless caffeine-fueled writing sessions, "Master Software Architecture: A Pragmatic Guide" is now available. Writing this book was a crazy time. I entirely focused on it, and it took exactly 753 hours of writing, editing, and image editing & resizing(!) until the premiere. Yes, the last one (images) was a killer. If you ever think about writing a book, reserve a lot of time for it unless someone else does it for you. As a result, I am handing you the nearly 400-page book. It is a guide that will help you connect all…
2024 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
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The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →
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A tutorial introduction to computer development environments
2017 · learnenough.com · its alternatives →
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This book explains how to implement DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing. The concepts are put into practice with standalone examples and a Sample Application.
2020 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm currently a Master's student at USTC (University of Science and Technology of China). I've been diving deep into Data Engineering, especially in the context of Large Language Models (LLMs). The Problem: I found that learning resources for modern data engineering are often fragmented and scattered across hundreds of medium articles or disjointed tutorials. It's hard to piece everything together into a coherent system. The Solution: I decided to open-source my learning notes and build them into a structured book. My goal is to help developers fast-track their learning curve. Key…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Server and configuration management for humans
2015 · ansiblefordevops.com · its alternatives →
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Strategies and reflections on software engineering
2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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Probably the best book on platform-based business ecosystems
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Language-agnostic book about components of scalable systems
2017 · a.co · its alternatives →
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A book on how to work more effectively w/ freelance devs
2015 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm so excited to finally share with you what I've been working on recently. One month ago I asked my audience what they wanted to learn about Websites, APIs and Servers security [0]. From the feedback, I've identified a few recurring pain points that I've started to address (and many more) in this new book. From theory to practice, you will learn how low-level network and security protocols work. How to configure Cloudflare to secure and scale your web applications. How to create serverless applications and which database to chose with serverless functions. How to optimize your…
2023 · kerkour.com · its alternatives →
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In this book I distill the techniques and methods that I’ve been using and advising others to use to successfully run distributed teams and whole companies. This book will be short, to the point, tactical, and have tool recommendations.
2022 · pablofernandez.tech · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! During the last few years, I worked on a few applications built with Go, running on AWS Lambda. As I got to know the platform better, I started to find Go & Lambda to be a really productive combination. The applications were fast, and they ended up being much cheaper to run than what my team & I had built before. It’s probably not the best platform for _every_ application, but I was surprised at how much of our workload worked well on it. As we brought new engineers on to our team and helped them get up to speed with the stack, I found that we were covering a lot of the same topics…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Interviews with the 15 most interesting computer programmers
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · lispwebtales.ppenev.com · its alternatives →
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