Martin Kleppmann Audiobooks

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: twenty-four hours deep on the technology shelf

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Who is Martin Kleppmann?

A second edition is a form of endorsement. Publishers revise what people keep using, and Designing Data-Intensive Applications has come back updated rather than being left where it was, which is the clearest thing our record says about the standing of Martin Kleppmann’s work.

The filing is single and unambiguous: technology. Data-intensive is the operative phrase, pointing at systems where the difficulty is not the code so much as the volume, the distribution, and the awkward business of keeping information consistent across machines that disagree with one another.

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Martin Kleppmann in audiobooks

Twenty-four hours is an unusual scale for technical publishing, closer to a course than a book, and Graham Mack carries all of it. The mark is more measured than most in this corner of the shelves and rests on a modest body of verdicts, which in technical audio very often reflects the medium rather than the material, dense reference writing being genuinely hard to follow without the page in front of you.

Approach it accordingly. It works best as a structured listen taken alongside the text, chapter by chapter, rather than as something to have on in the background while you work.

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