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Reliability, Scalability, and Maintainability - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman

January 19, 2026 01:20:23 77.17 MB Downloads: 0

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan begin discussing Designing Data-Intensive Application by Martin Kleppman!


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Designing Data-Intensive Application by Martin Kleppman!

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00:00 Intro

02:04 About the Book and Author

06:31 Initial Thoughts on DDIA16:39 Reliability, Scalability, and Maintainability

21:45 The Twitter Scalability Problem

33:52 Maintainability and AI-Generated Code

37:31 Data Models and Query Languages

47:20 LLMs as CNC Machines for Engineers

54:40 Storage Engines and Indexing

58:35 OLTP vs OLAP

1:05:08 Encoding and Evolution

1:13:16 Final Thoughts


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