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Alessio

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Joined 1 year, 6 months ago

Dungeon Master, Software Engineer, Meme Engineer, basically a human

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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley is an autobiography written by …

Controversial but great

5 stars

Despite the controversial nature of the book and the arguable opinions of the writer, the fact itself that this book was almost subject to cancel culture due to its strong critiques to the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem is a strong enough reason to read it in the first place. It offers a great alternative point of view about how money gets redistributed by VCs. Parts of it are simply hilarious.

Martin Kleppmann: Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Paperback, 2017, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated) 5 stars

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need …

A really great book about distributed, data-intensive systems design

No rating

This is THE book if anybody wants to go deep about distributed, data-intensive application design. Unexpectedly not only it explains so deeply new database technologies and paradigms, but it also narrates and states the situation as-it-is, the future challenges that a software engineer will face, and what led to them. If you're looking for growth as a software engineer, this has to go into your library.