Content tagged with "software"

Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Book Review
May 28, 2019
186

“I’m rating this 5-starts merely for the level of effort that went into it. That doesn’t mean I understood it all. This is the look at all the ways people design software that handle large volumes of data. Things like replication, partitioning, indexing, etc. And it doesn’t just described them – it…”

Designing Distributed Systems: Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Services
Book Review
March 16, 2019
99

“Not quite what I expected. I thought this was approaching systems design from a development standpoint, but it’s more from a hosting/infrastructure standpoint. Specifically, it’s about using Docker, Kubernetes, and such to extend and change the functionality of existing systems. I skimmed the second…”

A Philosophy of Software Design
Deane’s Library
Book Review
February 15, 2021
167

“This is a wonderful book that every novice programmer should read. It’s full of stunningly good advice about how to plan and write good code. However, it was wasted on me, because I’ve learned all these lessons. In no way is this a brag – rather, I say this to demonstrate how practically grounded…”