Cloud Trade-offs, Data Ethics, and Surveillance Capitalism in Distributed Systems

Published on 06.05.2026

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: Cloud Trade-offs and Doing the Right Thing

TLDR: Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini's second edition of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" includes an excerpt on cloud versus self-hosting decisions and a final chapter on engineering ethics. The book arrives nine years after the first edition, updated for a world reshaped by cloud-native infrastructure and AI.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Cloud & Doing the Right Thing