Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
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Benjamin Lange
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Written by:
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Martin Kleppmann
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Newly adapted for audiobook listeners.
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.
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This is not a programming book per se; teaching you how to code. It is a book about database technologies; theories and implementations. That means it translates well to an audio format with one caveat, it requires concentrated listening. If you plan on digesting this during your commute to and from work, take the bus; don’t drive.
This book covers a vast territory of database topics, delivering exactly what it promises. Perfect as an audio only learning platform, or as a reinforcement tool for the text version.
Kleppmann’s Brain Dump
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There is nothing wrong with the book or the narration, but it's simply the nature of this topic that makes it a hard listen; While I would put the book itself in a medium to medium-light category.
It takes a good minute or two to explain a structure while it would only take 5 seconds if you were to see an image of it from the book.
I would recommend this audiobook only if you cannot see yourself picking up the text version.
Great book to read but not to listen to.
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