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This is the modern bible. Unlike old textbooks that focus on 1970s relational theory, Petrov’s book is written for the age of NoSQL, NewSQL, and cloud databases.
Within one month, you will look at your production database and see B-Tree nodes, WAL segments, and MVCC tuples. The black box will become glass. And when something breaks at 2 AM, you won’t guess – you will know .