Designing data-intensive applications: the big ideas behind reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems

Data is at the center of many great challenges in system design. There
are so many tools to choose from and so many issues to consider. How do
you make the right choices for your application? How do you make sense
of all the 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. 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