Designing Modern Data Systems: Decision-Focused Software Architecture for Data Engineering, System Design, and Large Language Model Platforms

Data systems outlive applications, frameworks, and infrastructure.
They encode decisions that shape what a system can become—and what it can never safely change.

Designing Modern Data Systems is a deep, decision-driven guide to building data systems that are reliable, scalable, and adaptable over time. Rather than focusing on tools or trends, this book teaches how to reason about architecture itself: how guarantees are chosen, where authority lives, how failures manifest, and how systems evol...