Taro Book Club: Designing Data Intensive Applications - Chapter 1

Discussion led by: [**Ankur Agrawal**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erankuragr/) & [**Raj Shah**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/therajshah/)\
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In this #taro-bookclub discussion, we'll go over Chapter 1 of the book [**"Designing Data-Intensive Applications"**](https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable/dp/1449373321) by Martin Kleppmann. This chapter is about Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Applications and will provide good mental models to think about reliability, scalability and maintainability of Distributed Data Systems.

Here's the agenda:

- We’ll break down and discuss the key concepts from Chapter 1.
- There will also be time for any questions and answers you might have.

Get ready for our first session on this engaging and informative book!

We hope to see you for Chapter 2 as well: [**Taro Book Club: Designing Data Intensive Applications - Chapter 2 (Data Models and Query Languages)**](https://www.jointaro.com/event/taro-book-club-designing-data-intensive-applications-chapter-2-data-models-and-query-languages/)

If you don't have a Taro Premium membership, you can get it at a discount with Ankur's special link here: [**https://www.jointaro.com/r/eventu507/**](https://www.jointaro.com/r/eventu507/)

Discussion led by: Ankur Agrawal & Raj Shah\
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