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A must-read for every programmer. This is the best overview of data storage and distributed systems—two key concepts for building almost any piece of software tod...

An OK kids book. The good: several unique themes you don’t often see in children’s stories, such as the tesseract, a smart girl protagonist, and a love for scienc...

A fun, entertaining, action-filled book with a fun (pseudo) scientific premise that mixes biology, genetics, and chaos theory. Also, dinosaurs! The biggest downs...

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 to do just that, it’s ...

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...