Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

1st ed.

Data outlives code. The definitive guide to building systems that treat data seriously.

About the book

Known as DDIA — the wild boar book. Teaches the why behind every database, message broker, and distributed system: replication strategies, consistency models, fault tolerance, stream vs batch processing. The most recommended software engineering book of the last decade, full stop.

Best used for

—Choosing between database engines for your use case
—Designing a replication or partitioning strategy
—Reasoning about consistency vs availability tradeoffs in distributed systems

“The only book I've recommended to every engineer I've ever hired, without exception.”

— r/ExperiencedDevs

Install this skill

Run this command in your terminal. The skill will be available in all your Claude Code projects.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ddia-systems && curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wondelai/skills/main/ddia-systems/SKILL.md" -o ~/.claude/skills/ddia-systems/SKILL.md

Once installed, invoke with /ddia-systems in Claude Code, or let Claude load it automatically when relevant.

Skill by wondelai/skills, licensed MIT.