Designing Data-Intensive Applications

The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

By: Martin Kleppmann

Narrated by: Benjamin Lange

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords?

In this practical and comprehensive guide, author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate this diverse landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications.

Peer under the hood of the systems you already use, and learn how to use and operate them more effectively.

Make informed decisions by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of different tools.

Navigate the trade-offs around consistency, scalability, fault tolerance, and complexity.

Understand the distributed systems research upon which modern databases are built.

Peek behind the scenes of major online services, and learn from their architectures.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2017 Martin Kleppmann (P)2021 Upfront Books

Extremely valuable book for senior developers without big data experience as most probably you’ve got many myths to be busted

This book uncovers such important things like transactionslity, consistency, scale, timing, and as it turns they are much deeper and less reliable than you could have expected

Data out lives code

This book was excellent. It’s a must read for anyone in the data industry it highlights very well how coding and technology are there to serve the data. It provides great understanding of the inner workings of data systems, even for the non-technical data leader.

good oversight of data architectures and tech

Me agradó, considero que debe ser un must-to-read para cualquier profesional de la tecnología , por qué el manejo de datos e inherente a cualquier implementación

Data understood from the source

I have coded as a hobby for 2 decades. I never fully understood how databases worked. This book fully describes how ask data is stored… from file systems and in memory and how all major technologies interact with the file systems and/or memory. This audiobook is invaluable

One of the best technical books I have "read"

Designing Data-Intensive Applications is perhaps the single best technical book I have ever encountered. Insane breadth and depth and very clear, well thought out explanations. Audio version is fantastic. This is one of the four "must read" books I rec. people on software development (along with two Bob Martin books and Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach)