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System Design in 2026

Cloud Computing · Software Architecture

System Design in 2026

By Owen Hart

4.7 ★ editorial rating

$35.00

  • Format EPUB, PDF
  • Pages 272
  • Published 2026-04-16
  • Language English
  • Skill Advanced
  • Technology Distributed systems

Description

System design for this year: data stores, queues, multi-region, and where AI features change the architecture — without the whiteboard mythology.

What you’ll learn

  • Design around a user job
  • Treat models as flaky dependencies
  • Name the failure mode before you scale

Table of contents

  1. Jobs not boxes
  2. Data and consistency
  3. Queues and backpressure
  4. AI as a dependency
  5. Failure and cost

Author

Owen Hart

Application security without the fear-mongering.