Data systems

Martin Kleppmann uses Data systems as an umbrella term to describe databases, queues, and all those kind of software systems that have to do with data, either in transit or at rest.

Many applications today are data-intensive rather than compute intensive, and we’d like them to be reliable, scalable, and maintainable.

The general idea is to design these systems not with the goal to prevent faults or errors, but to tolerate them.