Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
Martin Kleppmann
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The moral of the story is that a NoSQL system may find itself accidentally reinventing SQL, albeit in disguise.”
“In distributed systems, suspicion, pessimism, and paranoia pay off.”
“it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state”
“To Schema on Read or to Schema on Write, That Is the Hadoop Data Lake Question”
“The need for data integration often only becomes apparent if you zoom out and consider the dataflows across an entire organization.”
“Technology is a powerful force in our society. Data, software, and communication can be used for bad: to entrench unfair power structures, to undermine human rights, and to protect vested interests. But they can also be used for good: to make underrepresented people’s voices heard, to create opportunities for everyone, and to avert disasters. This book is dedicated to everyone working toward the good.”
“Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you’re participating. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future — it’s living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money.”
“Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, and Terry Winograd: “The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web,” Stanford InfoLab Technical Report 422, 1999.”
“If we want the future to be better than the past, moral imagination is required, and that’s something only humans can provide [87]. Data and models should be our tools, not our masters.”
“A database is just a tool: how you use it is up to you.”
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