Hey, I'm the author of Jocko. I've been working at Confluent the past four years.
I just finished writing a book that shows how to build similar distributed services from scratch, it walks though building a simple distributed commit log with built-in consensus and service discovery from nothing to deployment: https://pragprog.com/titles/tjgo/distributed-services-with-g...
I'm not sure, I haven't heard of that happening before. I've asked my editor if she knows what's up. You can email me at tj at my HN username dot com if you want to follow up.
I just finished writing a book that shows how to build similar distributed services from scratch, it walks though building a simple distributed commit log with built-in consensus and service discovery from nothing to deployment: https://pragprog.com/titles/tjgo/distributed-services-with-g...