Martin Kleppmann

The details within each chapter, that is something that I often figured out once I got to that chapter.

So I wrote one chapter at a time and started each chapter work with just a lot of background research to actually get up to speed on the topic myself.

And it's often only then that, save for then replication, I decided, okay, well,

It seems like the three major ways of doing this are single leader, multi-leader or leaderless.

Okay.

I would decide on that structure essentially when I started writing each chapter and then try to fit the various points I wanted to make into this narrative structure.

As always, it takes vastly longer than expected.

It's the same for software and projects as it is for writing, I think.

So I think it took me about four years to write the first edition.

That was not four years of full-time, maybe like two and a half years of full-time equivalent or something like that, but written over the course of about four years.

So it definitely took a long time.

The

publisher deadline i missed by a ludicrous margin i think i missed it by about two and a half years or something like that but fortunately o'reilly were pretty laid back with the with the second with the first edition and were happy for me to just take my time and make it good

When it came to the second edition, then actually O'Reilly got a bit more aggressive and pushy about sticking to deadlines.

I guess by that point, the book had been established and people were waiting eagerly for the second edition.

So I kind of understand the desire to want to accelerate it.

But at the same time, I really appreciated the freedom that I had for the first edition to work on my own schedule.

And I had a bit less of that with the second.

Yeah, so they're all slightly vaguely defined, right?

So there's not a formal definition of those things, but...