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Chapter notes on DDIA, covering reliable systems, data models, storage, replication, partitioning, transactions, and consensus.
March 2026 · 9 chapters
Notes from DDIA Chapter 1 on reliability, scalability, maintainability, and the foundations of data-intensive applications.
Notes from DDIA Chapter 2 on data models, query languages, document databases, graph data, and relational tradeoffs.
Notes from DDIA Chapter 3 on storage engines, indexes, log-structured storage, B-trees, and retrieval tradeoffs.
Notes from DDIA Chapter 4 on encoding formats, schema evolution, dataflow, and compatibility between systems.
Notes from DDIA Chapter 5 on replication, leader-based replication, replication lag, and consistency tradeoffs.
Notes from DDIA Chapter 6 on partitioning strategies, secondary indexes, request routing, and rebalancing data.
Notes from DDIA Chapter 7 on transactions, ACID guarantees, single-object operations, and multi-object operations.
Notes from DDIA Chapter 8 on faults, partial failures, unreliable networks, clocks, and distributed-system uncertainty.
Notes from DDIA Chapter 9 on consistency, consensus, linearizability, ordering guarantees, and distributed coordination.