O’Reilly Book Club: Martin Kleppmann on Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Learn the principles of building scalable, performant, and reliable data systems
Join us for this edition of O’Reilly Book Club with Martin Kleppmann, author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, to explore principles and best practices for developing distributed data systems. Ask questions, learn tricks of the trade, listen to stories, and connect with other readers.
The O’Reilly Book Club series is an interactive opportunity to delve into your favorite O’Reilly books and deepen your understanding of the topics they cover. You’ll hear directly from O’Reilly authors about why they wrote these books, what issues they’re trying to solve, and which challenges they still struggle with. These events are constructed around your questions, so make a list and spend an hour leveling up your skills alongside other avid readers.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Make data systems scalable to support applications with a large user base
- Build applications that are reliable and operationally robust
- Develop systems that are easier to maintain and can adopt and grow with the changing technology landscape and requirements
This live event is for you because...
- You want to go beyond the words on the page and ask your own questions.
- You want to learn principles and best practices for designing distributed data systems.
Prerequisites
- Come with your questions for Martin Kleppmann
- Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration
Recommended follow-up:
- Read Designing Data-Intensive Applications (book) or listen to the audiobook
- Read Fundamentals of Data Engineering (book)
- Read Designing Distributed Systems (book)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Thursday, May 25, 2023, at 7:00am PT / 10:00am ET
- Introduction and presentation (10 minutes)
- Interactive discussion and Q&A (50 minutes)
- This session will be followed by a 30-minute discussion and demo session in a breakout room. Join Dor Laor, co-founder and CEO of ScyllaDB, and Felipe Cardeneti Mendes, IT specialist, to learn more about ScyllaDB and ask your questions. (30 minutes)
Your Guest
Martin Kleppmann
Martin Kleppmann is an associate professor at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he teaches distributed systems and cryptographic protocols. The first edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications in 2017 established him as an authority on data systems. 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.
