Software Engineer, Consultant, Speaker & Technical Trainer
I recently finished reading Understanding Distributed Systems by Roberto Vitillo. I was quite impressed by the quality of the book. It is one of the best computer science books I've read so far. A handful of others classify as such in my eyes.
But what makes this book so good, especially compared to other books in this genre - System Design?
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One of my key goals this year was to gain a good understanding of concurrency and multithreading. I've always had a tangent understanding of it at best. The book Java Concurrency in Practice was one of my first picks.
Sure, I've used multithreading concepts like promises & ajax in JavaScript before. I've also spawned go routines & used mutexes in Go. But I've never felt I'm proficient enough to state that I have a good understanding of this subject.
Hence, to bridge this gap in knowledge & skills, I decided to invest in several concurrency related books & courses. My intention was to start from JCIP and then move on to some additional courses. Initially, I felt that just reading this book won't be sufficient to understand the subject thoroughly.
However, after going through this book I didn't bother looking into any other concurrency course at all. It is one of the most succinct and yet thorough books on a given topic that I've ever read.
Additionally, I would recommend you to go through this book even if you're not using Java at all. It will give you a very profound understanding of whatever framework/mechanism your language of choice uses to tackle concurrency.
Here's why...
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