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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems (opens in a new tab)

Table of Contents

Part I. Foundation of Data Systems

1. Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Applications [ch01]
2. Data Models and Query Languages [ch02]
3. Storage and Retrieval [ch03]
4. Encoding and Evolution [ch04]

Part II. Distributed Data

5. Replication [ch05]
6. Partitioning [ch06]
7. Transactions [ch07]
8. The Trouble with Distributed Systems [ch08]
9. Consistency and Consensus [ch09]

Part III. Derived Data

10. Batch Processing [ch10]
11. Stream Processing [ch11]
12. The Future of Data Systems [ch12]