https://justinkim.app/categories/reviews/ Recent content in Reviews on Justin's Lab Hugo -- 0.147.7 en-us Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://justinkim.app/blog/designing-distributed-systems-review/ Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://justinkim.app/blog/designing-distributed-systems-review/ <p>Designing Distributed Systems: Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Systems Using Kubernetes 2nd Edition - Brendan Burns</p> <p>Review: 4/5</p> <p>Overall, this book sets a good foundation for distributed systems. It explains several patterns and provides working examples and diagrams for each.</p> <p>My main gripe with the book is the random AI section at the end. Chapter 15 talks about setting up AI models as part of a distributed system. It was jarring to read since most of the book focused on general patterns that would apply to any scenario, but dedicated one chapter to AI as it&rsquo;s own type of service. However, deployment of AI is not very different from deployments of other services, so it didn&rsquo;t feel relevant to the book.</p>