Moving Beyond The 'Magic Scaling Sauce' Myth
The New Stack, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Learn how to scale data-intensive applications effectively with this exclusive excerpt from Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini.
The following is an excerpt from the just-published second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini. It is published here with permission from O'Reilly. For more background on the book (known as the bible of data systems) and its evolution, see this conversation with the authors. Also, you can access three book chapters for free, courtesy of ScyllaDB.