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libellum_aphrodite's review
4.0
Part 1 gives a great overview of distributed systems techniques and trade-offs.
Part 2 goes really deep into database partitioning, replication, etc. Abundance of details.
Part 3 particularly got deeper into the weeds on things like clock skew than particularly served my systems design interview prep purposes, but I can certainly appreciate the thoroughness.
Overall, excellent dive on passing data around distributed systems.
Part 2 goes really deep into database partitioning, replication, etc. Abundance of details.
Part 3 particularly got deeper into the weeds on things like clock skew than particularly served my systems design interview prep purposes, but I can certainly appreciate the thoroughness.
Overall, excellent dive on passing data around distributed systems.
dashtaisen's review
challenging
informative
medium-paced
5.0
"Designing Data-Intensive Applications" was on my list for a while. I liked it, and I will definitely read it again. The book covers different types of system designs, and the pros and cons of each. There are specific examples of use cases and technologies, but mostly this is a book about architectures. I think that's a good approach, because specific technologies have come and gone, but the tradeoffs are mostly still relevant. And to be honest, given that big institutions can be slow to change, even the specific technologies and approaches in this book might remain relevant for a while.
I was pleasantly surprised to see a discussion of ethics in the conclusion. Of course I would have liked to see more of that, but the example of seeing what happens when you take a description of your tool and replace "data" with "surveillance" was pretty compelling.
The material in this book would be *excellent* inspiration for technical interviews -- much better than LeetCode or any of the popular whiteboard algorithm exercise books.
Unlike the vast majority of books in this genre, I enjoyed the writing. The material is not easy, but the writing style is straightforward and accessible. And the author is not afraid to make explicit connections to previous concepts. I am sure that some people will find that unnecessarily repetitive, but I thought it was done appropriately. There were a couple of historical tangents that I thought could have been shorter.
I was pleasantly surprised to see a discussion of ethics in the conclusion. Of course I would have liked to see more of that, but the example of seeing what happens when you take a description of your tool and replace "data" with "surveillance" was pretty compelling.
The material in this book would be *excellent* inspiration for technical interviews -- much better than LeetCode or any of the popular whiteboard algorithm exercise books.
Unlike the vast majority of books in this genre, I enjoyed the writing. The material is not easy, but the writing style is straightforward and accessible. And the author is not afraid to make explicit connections to previous concepts. I am sure that some people will find that unnecessarily repetitive, but I thought it was done appropriately. There were a couple of historical tangents that I thought could have been shorter.
julissadantes's review
informative
5.0
This book is of high quality and could serve as a valuable resource for students pursuing a career in, or professionals of software engineering.
stag1e's review
5.0
Very well written - clear, easy to understand, lucid. Filled some gaps in my knowledge. The last section made me really think about the world we're going towards and the whole information age.