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Designing Data-Intensive Applications (O'Reilly)
The canonical book on the principles behind data systems: reliability, scalability, replication, partitioning, consistency, and batch/stream processing. Martin Kleppmann's DDIA is the single highest-value read for system-design interviews and for understanding why data tools are shaped as they are. Every chapter maps directly to patterns in this registry — replication to CDC, partitioning to lakehouse, consistency to transaction semantics. The definitive textbook for data engineers.
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| What | The canonical book on the principles behind data systems: reliability, scalability, replication, partitioning, consistency, and batch/stream processing. Martin Kleppmann's DDIA is the single highest-value read for system-design interviews and for understanding why data tools are shaped as they are. Every chapter maps directly to patterns in this registry — replication to CDC, partitioning to lakehouse, consistency to transaction semantics. The definitive textbook for data engineers. |
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| Where | Data Engineering System Design |
| Why | The single highest-value read for system-design interviews and for understanding why the tools are shaped as they are. |
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications (O'Reilly)