wanted to read it for a while now but it seems the concepts discussed are too far off for me. do you think it helps in your day to day (some context about the scale you build for might help)
It helps to understand the differences in different databases. Basically, it explains in depth why ACID is a thing. I had one really nasty bug early in my career, where the app would write to a database, successfully apparently. But shortly after it would fail to read that same…