Designing Data-Intensive Applications - The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

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• The book explores the underlying principles of data systems and how they are used to build reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications.
• It outlines the importance of distributed systems in handling data-intensive applications and how to deal with the challenges associated with them.
• The book emphasizes on the trade-offs involved in choosing particular data structures, algorithms, and architectures for data-intensive applications.
• It provides a detailed explanation of the three main components of data systems: storage, retrieval, and processing.
• It presents an in-depth understanding of consistency and consensus in the context of distributed systems.
• The book discusses...

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