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Martin Kleppmann

What Martin Kleppmann thinks about the cloud

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Computer science researcher at Cambridge, author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, after a decade in industry at his own startups and LinkedIn.

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4 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Martin Kleppmann has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingHigher-level abstractions do not abolish low-level knowledge; they concentrate it in the smaller group of people who build the abstractions.

    Their wordsBut, somebody still has to build those lower-level abstractions and from lower-level components. Somebody's got to implement the cloud services.

    ↗Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmannyoutube.com 6th of 26 in this recording

  3. Our readingEurope being locked out of US cloud services is still unlikely, but it is no longer unthinkable, and serious systems should be engineered against it.

    Europe

    Their wordsSo, what if geopolitics was to go horribly wrong and tensions escalate and Europe find itself suddenly locked out of US cloud services? I hope that doesn't happen. I still think it's fairly unlikely, but it's no longer unthinkable.

    ↗Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmannyoutube.com 8th of 26 in this recording

  5. Our readingSharding across machines has faded as a concern because hardware got more powerful, not because the cloud made it easy.

    Their wordsBut, at least this sort of sharding across multiple machines is maybe become less of a pressing issue just because more and more workloads can just run on a single machine. Some people still have very large-scale workloads that do have to be sharded across multiple machines. So, it's not going away entirely.

    ↗Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmannyoutube.com 10th of 26 in this recording

  7. Our readingPower over data belongs with end users rather than cloud operators, and software should be built to move it back to them.

    Their wordslocal-first software, which is this idea that we want to take away a bit of the power from cloud operators and give it back to end users. So, end users should be more in control of their own data and less dependent on cloud services for providing the applications and the data that that the users need.

    ↗Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmannyoutube.com 20th of 26 in this recording