“…Taking up themes of modernity, such as isolation and alienation, urban culture, and the relation between the group and the individual, Kracauer explores a kaleidoscope of topics: shopping arcades, the cinema, bestsellers and their readers, photography, dance, hotel lobbies, Kafka, the Bible, and boredom. For Kracauer, the most revelatory facets of modern life in the West lie on the surface, in the ephemeral and the marginal. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The evolution of distributed systems -- Designing a distributed queue -- Designing a pub/sub system -- Key characteristics of pub/sub systems -- Pub/sub system design considerations -- Kafka -- The importance of Kafka in distributed systems -- Kafka Streams -- Kinesis -- Summary -- Part 3: System Design in Practice -- Chapter 8: Design and Implementation of System Components: API, Security, and Metrics -- REST APIs -- Design principles of REST APIs -- Use cases for REST APIs -- Strengths and weaknesses -- gRPC APIs -- Design principles of gRPC APIs -- Use cases for gRPC APIs -- Strengths and weaknesses -- Comparing REST and gRPC -- API security -- Authentication -- Authorization -- Secure communication of APIs -- Rate limiting -- Distributed systems logging -- Centralized logging -- Best practices for implementing distributed logging -- Metrics in a distributed system -- Types of metrics -- Open source tools for metrics -- Best practices for implementing metrics -- Alerting in a distributed system -- Designing effective alerts -- Open-source tools for alerting -- Best practices for implementing alerting -- Tracing in a distributed system -- Distributed tracing -- Open-source tools for distributed tracing -- Best practices for implementing tracing -- Best practices -- Summary -- Chapter 9: System Design - URL Shortener -- Real-world use cases -- Functional requirements -- Non-functional requirements -- Client APIs needed -- Estimates and calculations -- System design -- Core challenge -- Choice of database -- High-level solution architecture -- Requirements verification -- Summary -- Chapter 10: System Design - Proximity Service -- Real-world use cases -- Functional requirements -- Non-functional requirements -- Client APIs needed -- Estimates and calculations -- System design -- High-level system design -- Core challenge…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…VI AL GUARDAESPALDAS DE DIOS -- VI A LOS REYES MAGOS -- VI A LA MUERTE ENTRAR A UN HOTEL SIN ESPEJOS -- VI A DIOS LLEVARSE LOS JUGUETES DE MI HIJO -- VI A LA MUERTE HACIENDO EL KAMASUTRA CON DIOS -- VI A CAPERUCITA PERDIDA EN EL BOSQUE -- III. …”