Fantastic book. A really good overview over distributed consensus, leader-follower-architectures, data query languages and data encoding.

And IMO the best part, explaining very clearly different isolation levels and the difference between serializability and linearizability.

The book is much more database-relevant than the title might make you think.

How dry is this? I've had hit or miss success with technical books, and found that the writing style can help dramatically to feeling engaged and not dry or boring.

Thoughts?