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Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini explain why Designing Data-Intensive Applications needed a second edition. The updated book explores cloud-native architectures, object storage, Postgres extensions, vector databases, streaming tradeoffs, and AI-driven workloads. The conversation also covers how distributed systems are evolving for edge computing, multimodal data, semantic search, and human-AI collaboration.