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Post #7961 · source on Telegram
Me Designing Data-Intensive Applications: Monkey Riding a Pig Into Ruin
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A screenshot of a tweet by Preston Thorpe (@PThorpe92) captioned 'Me designing data intensive applications', quote-tweeting Raven (@raven_brah) who wrote 'Ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending!' (Theoden's charge from The Lord of the Rings). The quoted photo shows a small monkey gripping the back of a black pot-bellied pig as it sprints at full speed across dirt ground, motion-blurred, with a rope leash trailing behind. The meme riffs on the famous book 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications' (DDIA by Martin Kleppmann): the chaotic, barely-controlled animal ride stands in for architecting distributed data systems - committed at full gallop, holding on for dear life, ruin imminent
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Chapter 1 of DDIA covers reliability, scalability, and maintainability; chapter 2 is apparently a monkey screaming 'death!' while the pig eventually becomes consistent with the wall
Throughput is excellent; unfortunately the control plane is a monkey holding a rope.