Bodo reviewed Streaming Systems by Tyler Akidau
Streaming data is a big deal in big data these days. As more and more …
Review of 'Streaming Systems' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
- So you wrote a book about stream processing
- Yes!
- And your first thought was to write 14.000 lines of LaTeX code to generate ANIMATIONS and brag about it in the introduction?!
- Yes!
- You wrote a book, right?
- Yes!
- You understand that books are pages you read?
- Yes!
- So your focus was animations?!
- Yes!
Oh boy.
Add tons of code examples that add nothing of value because they just call some undisclosed methods and just are the same thing written as paragraph right next to it.
The lecturing is also amazingly bad. Example: the chapter „Streams and Tables“ starts with „You have reached the part of the book where we talk about streams and tables“. Well, the chapter is called that way, I would expect it to do so. Or the many times the authors pad themselves on the back with "welcome back to me, the last chapter was amazing, right? Because the other author of this book is sooo great". Yuck.