Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Author Information

Martin Kleppmann is a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn. He is a co-founder of Rapportive, a startup that was acquired by LinkedIn.

Blurb

Do you want to know how the best software engineers and architects structure their applications to make them scalable, reliable, and maintainable in the long term? This book explores the fundamental principles, algorithms, and trade-offs of data systems, using the internal structures of various popular software packages and frameworks as examples. The tools available to you are evolving, and the demands on applications are increasing, but the principles behind them remain the same. You will learn how to determine which tool is suitable for which purpose and how certain tools can be combined to form the foundation of a good application architecture. You will develop an intuition for what your systems need.