Exploring the building blocks of distributed systems

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Distributed systems are ubiquitous yet complex. They can be particularly demanding for software developers and architects tasked with dealing with the sometimes unpredictable nature of the interactions between their various parts.

That's why Thoughtworker Unmesh Joshi wrote Patterns of Distributed Systems. Published at the end of 2023, the book explores a number of patterns that characterize distributed systems, and uses them to not only help readers better understand how such systems work but also to solve problems and challenges that often arise.

On this episode of the Technology Podcast, Unmesh joins hosts Scott Shaw and Rebecca Parsons to talk about his book, explaining where the idea came from, how he put it together and why it's important to get beneath neat abstractions to really get to grips with the inner workings of distributed systems.

Learn more about Patterns of Distributed Systems: https://www.pearson.com/subject-catalog/p/patterns-of-distributed-systems/P200000011305/9780138221980

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody, to the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast.
0:12.1	I'm going to be the host today.
0:13.5	My name is Scott Shaw.
0:15.6	And I'm joined today with co-host Rebecca Parsons.
0:19.5	Would you like to introduce yourself, Rebecca?
0:22.0	Hello, everyone. This is Rebecca Parsons, another one of your regular co-hosts. I'm the CTO
0:26.9	Amerita. And we are joined today by another thought worker based in India, who has just written a book,
0:36.9	or finished a book.
0:38.3	Unmesh, would you like to introduce yourself?
0:41.3	Hey, hi everyone.
0:43.3	I'm a principal consultant at ThoughtWorks and been with ThoughtWorks for 16 years now.
0:49.3	And as Rebecca said, had been involved in writing about distributed systems for last few years,
0:56.7	which is now compiled into a book, which is out.
0:59.2	Yeah, that's quite an accomplishment.
1:01.4	Unmesh and I worked together 10 years ago or more back in Pune, India.
1:06.4	So it's a pleasure to be talking to you again.
1:09.3	So the book is called Patterns of Distributed Systems, which is a pretty big topic.
1:15.2	And I think it's also something that's probably not that well documented elsewhere.
1:22.7	And so I think this is a unique book and probably fills a needed gap in the market right now.
1:31.4	But I wonder how was it that you first came to want to write a book?
1:37.4	How did this get started initially?
1:39.3	Yeah.
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