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Alessio rated The Spear Cuts Through Water: 5 stars
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jiménez
The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, …
Alessio finished reading Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these …
Alessio rated Gideon the Ninth: 4 stars
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off …
Alessio rated Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: 2 stars
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …
La resa by Lorenzo Vargas
Attraverso infinite identità e configurazioni l'Eroe e il Necromante sono protagonista e nemesi di ogni singola narrazione, entità eterne impegnate …
Alessio rated Prog Metal: 5 stars
Alessio finished reading The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book 7) by Stephen King (Dark Tower (7))
[The Dark Tower][1] VII
Roland’s ka-tet is reunited, but not without cost. The last …
One of the books that gave me the most chills and tears. A true masterpiece.
Alessio rated Altered Carbon: 5 stars
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
It's the twenty-fifth century, and advances in technology have redefined life itself. A person's consciousness can now be stored in …
Alessio rated Il nome del vento: 5 stars
Il nome del vento by Patrick Rothfuss
La Pietra Miliare, una locanda come tante, nasconde un incredibile segreto. L'uomo che la gestisce, Kote, non è davvero il …
Alessio rated Rust in Action: 5 stars
Rust in Action by Tim McNamara (In Action)
Rust in Action introduces the Rust programming language by exploring numerous systems programming concepts and techniques. You'll be learning Rust …
Alessio reviewed Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez
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.
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
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.
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.