Dominik Tornow

Dominik Tornow is the founder and CEO of Resonate HQ, Inc. He studied software systems engineering at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany and has over 20 years of industry experience. Dominik specializes in systems modeling, focusing on formal and conceptual modeling to ensure that concurrent, distributed systems are correct by construction.

books by Dominik Tornow

Think Distributed Systems

  • MEAP began June 2024
  • Publication in August 2025 (estimated)
  • ISBN 9781633436176
  • 236 pages (estimated)
  • printed in black & white

Think Distributed Systems provides accurate and concise mental models to help you reason confidently about distributed systems. It delivers a big picture view of distributed systems along with a detailed look at key topics like partitioning, replication, durable executions, and consensus protocols. You’ll learn how to handle component and network failures as you develop both the skills and the intuition to design, implement, and understand the most common types of distributed systems you’ll encounter.