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I just published the first entry in The Yak Shaving Series, where we share stories of some of the unexpected, bizarre, painful, and time-consuming problems we’ve...

A fun, thrilling read on biology, disease, outbreaks, and extraterrestrial life.

Today, we are kicking off a series of blog posts where we share the pain of DevOps through short stories: Introducing: The Yak Shaving Series.

My reactions as I read this book: “Wow, what a premise! The allies lose WWII and the Axis take over the world!” “All of Europe dominated by Germany? The US spli...

A quick, fun read about a post-apocalyptic society, “mutants,” and the evolution/transformation of humans. The characters are all fairly shallow, and the mutation...

An interesting, well-researched, and somewhat plausible look at a future when humanity tries to settle Mars. Given that Elon Musk is trying do just that, it’s fun...

This book does a good job of walking you through the typical career path of a software engineer, from individual contributor all the way up to senior executive. I...

This is a fairly unusual sci-fi book. Right from the get-go, it manages to grab you, dropping you and the protagonist onto a research station on an alien world, f...

Here’s the TLDR for the book: create opt-in mailing lists, offer incentives to get people to join those lists, and then send promotional materials to those people...

This is another 1950’s-era sci-fi that does not resonate with me. Normally, I enjoy books in a post-apocalyptic setting, and while the premise for this one was gr...