Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Reliability

We start our deep dive into Joe's favorite new book, Designing Data-Intensive Applications as Joe can't be stopped while running downhill, Michael might have a new spin on #fartgate, and Allen doesn't quite have a dozen tips this episode.

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications

About this book

What is a data-intensive application per the book?

Any application whose primary challenge is:

• The quantity of data.
• The complexity of the data.
• The speed at which the data is changing.

That's in contrast to applications that are compute intensive.

Buzzwords that seem to be synonymous with data-intensive

• NoSQL
• Message queues
• Caches
• Search indexes
• Batch / stream processing

This book is …

This book is NOT a tutorial on how to do data-intensive applications with a particular toolset or pure theory.

What the book IS:

• A study of successful data systems.
• A look into the tools / technologies that enable these data intensive system