Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Review

Date finished: 5/5/2025

This book took a lot of effort to get through as it contains a lot of new concepts for me.

But it really broadened my view of what it takes to build applications at a large scale. And about what goes on behind the scenes when you use AWS services like RDS, EC2, Lambda, etc.

A lot of the information isn't directly applicable in my day-to-day engineering work. But I'm really glad I took the time and effort to read it.

Details

  • Title: Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
  • Authors: Martin Kleppmann
  • ISBN: 1449373321
  • Published: 2017
  • Format: Paperback