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Takeaways

• Reliability, scalability, and maintainability are the three reasons we bother with data systems.
• There is no single storage engine that is best for every access pattern.
• Replication and partitioning are separate problems; most systems need both.

Chapter 1 — Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Applications

Reliability means the system keeps working when things go wrong, not only in the happy path.