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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
DatabasesDistributed SystemsBackend
Since Apr 2026View book
Takeaway·Ch. 1 — Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Applications
Reliability, scalability, and maintainability are the three concerns that matter most in data systems — everything else flows from these.
Note·Ch. 1
Latency and response time are not the same thing. Response time is what the client sees end-to-end; latency is purely the time a request spends waiting to be handled.