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Designing data-intensive applications is about crafting systems that can effortlessly handle massive amounts of information while staying fast, reliable, and scalable. It’s a balancing act between choosing the right data models, understanding distributed systems, and optimizing performance. The real challenge lies in creating solutions that can grow with your data, adapt to failures, and remain easy to maintain. Want to build applications that can power through the demands of modern data? That’s where the true art of design comes in.

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