How long does it take to read Designing Data-Intensive Applications?
The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
Martin Kleppmann
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann takes about 11 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 20 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2017. 618 pages, about 169,950 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords? In this practical and comprehensive guide, author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate this diverse landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications. Peer under the hood of the systems you already use, and learn how to use and operate them more effectively. Make informed decisions by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of different tools. Navigate the trade-offs around consistency, scalability, fault tolerance, and complexity. Understand the distributed systems research upon which modern databases are built. Peek behind the scenes of major online services, and learn from their architectures
Subjects: Development, Web site development, Application software, Database management, Databases, COMPUTERS
