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Key updates include... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-the-bible-of-data-systems-is-getting-a-massive-rewrite-for-2026-gydfbvctf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gyDfbVctf.png og:image:alt: Why the “bible” of data systems is getting a massive rewrite for 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why the “bible” of data systems is getting a massive rewrite for 2026 **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 10 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Martin Kleppmann and co-author Chris Riccomini discuss the upcoming second edition of 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications', due in 2026. Key updates include cloud-native architectures, object storage as a first-class building block, the proliferation and potential consolidation of specialized databases, streaming system tradeoffs, and AI's impact on storage formats, query engines, and human-AI collaboration patterns. The conversation highlights how the shift from local disk to object store fundamentally changes database design, how Postgres is eating the bottom of the market via extensions like pgvector, and how AI agents will need well-defined APIs to interact safely with data systems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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