Patterns of Distributed Systems

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, the book was only possible because of encouragement from Martin Fowler. He guided me to think in terms of patterns. He also helped me come up with good examples and contributed to the chapters that were very tricky to write.

I want to thank the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) team. Working with that team was the trigger for much of this work. I had good conversations about many of these patterns with Mushtaq Ahmed who was leading the TMT project.

Sarthak Makhija validated a lot of these patterns while he worked on building a distributed key-value store.

I have been publishing these patterns periodically on martinfowler.com. While working on these patterns, I sent drafts of new material to the Thoughtworks developer ...