Designing Data-Intensive Applications

The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Paperback, 611 pages

English language

Published Jan. 24, 2017 by O'Reilly Media, Incorporated.

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978-1-4919-0310-0
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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 …

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A really great book about distributed, data-intensive systems design

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This is THE book if anybody wants to go deep about distributed, data-intensive application design. Unexpectedly not only it explains so deeply new database technologies and paradigms, but it also narrates and states the situation as-it-is, the future challenges that a software engineer will face, and what led to them. If you're looking for growth as a software engineer, this has to go into your library.