# Designing Data Intensive Applications

Apply Martin Kleppmann-inspired data-system rules when designing reliability...

- Repository: https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books (3164 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-09-10
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --skill designing-data-intensive-applications -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --skill designing-data-intensive-applications -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --skill designing-data-intensive-applications -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --skill designing-data-intensive-applications -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Apply Martin Kleppmann-inspired data-system rules when designing reliability, scalability, consistency, replication, transactions, streams, or schema evolution.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Designing Data-Intensive Applications Skill

Use this skill when a task involves data ownership, consistency semantics, event flows, replication, partitioning, transactions, streams, batch processing, fault tolerance, or schema evolution.

Before making design or code decisions, read and apply [designing-data-intensive-applications.mini.md](designing-data-intensive-applications.mini.md). Use [designing-data-intensive-applications.md](designing-data-intensive-applications.md) only as a deeper reference when the mini rules are not enough for the current data-system tradeoff.