Why would someone write a book about computer logs? It turns out that the humble log is an abstraction that lies at the heart of many systems, from NoSQL databases to cryptocurrencies. Yet other than occasionally tailing a log file, most engineers don't think much about them. This book shows you why logs are worthy of your attention.
Based on popular blog posts from Jay Kreps, a principal engineer at LinkedIn, this concise guide starts with an overview of how logs work in distributed systems, and then provides some practical applications of these concepts to a variety of common uses: data integration, enterprise architecture, realtime stream processing, data system design, and abstract computing models.
Get ready to take the plunge with logs: you're going love them.