[wippler]

I found "Designing Data-Intensive Application" book to be really helpful introduction to learning more interesting details about distributed systems. The book provides a gentle introduction to build intuition around these systems and contains a plethora of links to go further down the rabbit hole.

https://dataintensive.net/

[barbecue_sauce]

It's about 1000x better than "Designing Distributed Systems" which is basically just a book about Kubernetes. (Should have known, since its written by Brendan Burns).