I write a book about RethinkDB in one year

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A comprehensive guide to RethinkDB developed over one year and published through Leanpub. Written in markdown and designed for developers wanting to understand the database in depth, the book covers RethinkDB fundamentals and usage. The author has open-sourced the material on GitHub while offering a paid version on Leanpub. The work is still in progress and welcomes community feedback and contributions from reviewers.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

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In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi all, I like RethinkDB a lot. One year ago, I started to document it because I want to learn more about it. At first, I blog, at one point I started to writing it in markdown, using pandoc to convert it into PDF then I switched to Leanpub. At some point, I almost abandon it. But finally I make effort to go back and…

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