Sayed Alesawy

Series

Designing Data Intensive Applications

This series discusses a book called Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. This is book is widely considered as an encyclopedia of modern data engineering.

Articles in this series

Designing Data Intensive Applications: Ch.7 Transactions (weak isolation levels)

Dec 10, 202322 min read

In the previous article, we introduced database transactions, went over their main use cases and discussed what type of guarantees they entail under...

Designing Data Intensive Applications: Ch.7 Transactions (weak isolation levels)

Designing Data Intensive Applications: Ch.7 Transactions (intro to ACID transactions)

Dec 2, 20237 min read

In the previous few articles, we discussed the concept of partitioning and learned how it can be utilized by to scale out data intensive...

Designing Data Intensive Applications: Ch.7 Transactions (intro to ACID transactions)

Designing Data Intensive Applications: Ch.6 Partitioning (Part 3: Rebalancing Partitions and Request Routing)

Aug 26, 202310 min read

In the previous two articles, we introduced the concept of partitioning as a means to further scale out a system. We went over concepts like...

Designing Data Intensive Applications: Ch.6 Partitioning (Part 3: Rebalancing Partitions and Request Routing)

Designing Data Intensive Applications: Ch.6 Partitioning (Part 2: Partitioning and Secondary Indexes)

Aug 4, 20235 min read

In the previous article, we introduced the concept of data partitioning as a method to be able to further scale storage and query throughput. We went...

Designing Data Intensive Applications: Ch.6 Partitioning (Part 2: Partitioning and Secondary Indexes)

Designing Data Intensive Applications: Ch.6 Partitioning (Part 1: Partitioning of Key-Value Data)

Jul 22, 202310 min read

In the previous series of articles, we discussed Chapter 5 of Data-Intensive Applications which tackled replication. And we learned that replication...

Designing Data Intensive Applications: Ch.6 Partitioning (Part 1: Partitioning of Key-Value Data)

Designing Data Intensive Applications: Ch5. Replication (Part 4: Leaderless Replication)

Dec 24, 202211 min read

In the previous article, we discussed multi-leader replication and some of its usecases such as replication over multiple datacenters, offline client...

Designing Data Intensive Applications: Ch5. Replication (Part 4: Leaderless Replication)