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Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition

by Martin Kleppmann, Chris Riccomini
February 2026
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
21h 56m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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About the Authors

Martin Kleppmann is an associate professor at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he lectures on distributed systems and cryptographic protocols. The first edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications in 2017 established him as an authority on data systems, and through his research on distributed systems he helped start the local-first software movement. Previously he was a software engineer and entrepreneur at internet companies including LinkedIn and Rapportive, where he worked on large-scale data infrastructure.

Chris Riccomini is a software engineer, startup investor, and author with 15+ years of experience at PayPal, LinkedIn, and WePay. He runs Materialized View Capital, where he invests in infrastructure startups. He is also the cocreator of Apache Samza and SlateDB and coauthor of The Missing README: A Guide for the New Software Engineer.

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