Data Intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann
A new programmer learns to build applications using data structures like a queue, a cache, or a database. Modern cloud applications are built using more sophisticated tools like Redis, Kafka, or Amazon S3. These tools do multiple things well, and often have overlapping functionality. Application architecture becomes less straightforward. The applications we are building today are data-intensive rather than compute-intensive. Netflix needs to know how to store and cache large
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