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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann. Good systems are built by understanding reliability, scalability, maintainability, and the tradeoffs hiding underneath abstractions.
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Good systems are built by understanding reliability, scalability, maintainability, and the tradeoffs hiding underneath abstractions.
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Infrastructure choices are product choices when they affect trust, latency, and iteration speed.
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