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

  • August 2025
  • ISBN 9781633436176
  • 192 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Russian, Simplified Chinese

In Think Distributed Systems you’ll find a beautifully illustrated collection of mental models for:

  • Correctness, scalability, and reliability
  • Failure tolerance, detection, and mitigation
  • Message processing
  • Partitioning, replication, consensus, and more!

This practical book delivers both the big picture view and ground-level details you need to understand the distributed systems you’ll encounter on the job. Author Dominik Tornow breaks down distributed system design into useful categories like component and network failures, transactions, durable executions, and distributed consensus. You’ll love how the elegant analogies, examples, illustrations, and definitions clarify even the most difficult concepts.