Book Overflow

The Ethics of Data-Intensive Applications - Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman

Book Overflow

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

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Designing Data-Intensive Application by Martin Kleppman https://amzn.to/3LNwzSK

00:00 Intro 03:05 About the Book and Author 05:15 Initial Thoughts on DDIA Part 4 11:44 Stream Processing and Message Brokers 20:00 Kafka, Event Sourcing, and Append-Only Logs 43:42 Fault Tolerance in Streaming Systems 49:05 The Future of Data Systems 57:43 Privacy, Surveillance, and Ethics 1:11:42 Final Thoughts

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