So many recommendations for this book but I really didn't like it, very theoretical. It lists a lot of the main data related software systems and how they work, but that seemed about it. I really expected comparisons and tradeoffs, eg when should you switch from using a database to a message queue to Kafka? No real world examples or design experience.
Everything is so case specific. And at the same time most of the tools work pretty well for the scale of most companies to the point they it doesn’t matter when you chose what...
Because of those two I don’t know exactly what people expect apart from either specific use cases ( conferences , blogs , etc.) or generic fundamentals (the book).
