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Ddia Principles

Quality score: 70/100  ·  Category: Engineering  ·  Sub-category: data-engineering
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) distilled reference guide by Martin Kleppmann. MUST be loaded when: designing database schemas, choosing storage engines, implementing replication or partitioning, handling distributed transactions, building batch/stream processing pipelines, choosing consistency models, implementing consensus, designing data flow architectures, evaluating trade-offs between availability and consistency, encoding/serialization decisions, data modeling (relational vs document vs graph), building fault-tolerant systems, or any system design and architecture discussion involving data-intensive applications. Trigger on: database design, replication, partitioning, sharding, transactions, isolation levels, consistency, consensus, CAP theorem, batch processing, stream processing, MapReduce, Kafka, event sourcing, CDC, OLTP, OLAP, B-tree, LSM-tree, data warehouse, schema evolution, encoding formats, distributed systems, fault tolerance, leader election, quorum.

What this skill does

Ddia Principles is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the data-engineering sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/ddia-principles/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Ddia Principles skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ddia-principles
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/ddia-principles/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/ddia-principles/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ddia-principles/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/ddia-principles/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\ddia-principles\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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