# 1. Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Applications
> *The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a tech‐ nology with a scale like that was so error-free?*
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> — [Alan Kay](http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442), in interview with *Dr Dobb’s Journal* (2012)
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Many applications today are *data-intensive*, as opposed to *compute-intensive*. Raw CPU power is rarely a limiting factor for these applications—bigger problems are usually the amount of data, the complexity of data, and the speed at which it is changing.
A data-intensive application is typically built from standard building blocks that pro‐ vide commonly needed functionality. For example, many applications need to:
- Store data so that they, or another application, can find it again later (*databases*)
- Remember the result of an expensive operation, to speed up reads (*caches*)
- Allow users to search data by keyword or filter it in various ways (*search indexes*)
- Send a message to another process, to be handled asynchronously (*stream pro‐ cessing*)
- Periodically crunch a large amount of accumulated data (*batch processing*)
If that sounds painfully obvious, that’s just because these *data systems* are such a suc‐ cessful abstraction: we use them all the time without thinking too much. When build‐ ing an application, most engineers wouldn’t dream of writing a new data storage engine from scratch, because databases are a perfectly good tool for the job.
But reality is not that simple. There are many database systems with different charac‐ teristics, because different applications have different requirements. There are vari‐ ous approaches to caching, several ways of building search indexes, and so on. When building an application, we still need to figure out which tools and which approaches are the most appropriate for the task at hand. And it can be hard to combine tools when you need to do something that a single tool cannot do alone.
This book is a journey through both the principles and the practicalities of data sys‐ tems, and how you can use them to build data-intensive applications. We will explore what different tools have in common, what distinguishes them, and how they achieve their characteristics.
In this chapter, we will start by exploring the fundamentals of what we are trying to achieve: reliable, scalable, and maintainable data systems. We’ll clarify what those things mean, outline some ways of thinking about them, and go over the basics that we will need for later chapters. In the following chapters we will continue layer by layer, looking at different design decisions that need to be considered when working on a data-intensive application.
The theme of this chapter has been to understand trade-offs: that is, to recognize that for many questions there is not one right answer, but several different approaches that each have various pros and cons. We explored some of the most important choices that affect the architecture of data systems, and introduced terminology that will be needed throughout the rest of this book.
We started by making a distinction between operational (transaction-processing, OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) systems, and saw their different characteristics: not only managing different types of data with different access patterns, but also serving different audiences. We encountered the concept of a data warehouse and data lake, which receive data feeds from operational systems via ETL. In [Link to Come] we will see that operational and analytical systems often use very different internal data layouts because of the different types of queries they need to serve.
We then compared cloud services, a comparatively recent development, to the traditional paradigm of self-hosted software that has previously dominated data systems architecture. Which of these approaches is more cost-effective depends a lot on your particular situation, but it’s undeniable that cloud-native approaches are bringing big changes to the way data systems are architected, for example in the way they separate storage and compute.
Cloud systems are intrinsically distributed, and we briefly examined some of the trade-offs of distributed systems compared to using a single machine. There are situations in which you can’t avoid going distributed, but it’s advisable not to rush into making a system distributed if it’s possible to keep it on a single machine. In [Link to Come] and [Link to Come] we will cover the challenges with distributed systems in more detail.
Finally, we saw that data systems architecture is determined not only by the needs of the business deploying the system, but also by privacy regulation that protects the rights of the people whose data is being processed—an aspect that many engineers are prone to ignoring. How we translate legal requirements into technical implementations is not yet well understood, but it’s important to keep this question in mind as we move through the rest of this book.
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