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(I did not write up a text review or notes on this book).

An Infrastructure Package is a reusable, battle-tested, documented, configurable, best-practices definition of a piece of infrastructure. We think it’s a better w...

I finally took the time to read this classic. It starts off a bit slow and feels quaint by modern standards, but that’s only because it was one of the first books...

I’m not sure why, but I simply couldn’t put this book down. Sanderson has a remarkable ability to make you care about the characters in the book. Now that I’m do...

Last year was a bit crazy. I published a book; I started a company; Molly and I sold everything we owned and did a cross-country road trip, with stops at the Bonn...

Beware reading this book before bed. Not because it’s scary, but because the action scenes get your heart pumping and the cliffhangers make it impossible to put d...

A wonderfully eye-opening read on the profound changes that are going to happen in society as a result of technology. Kurzweil makes a compelling argument that te...

Hacking, crypto, humor, war, espionage, sex, marines… This book has it all. And then some. And then a bit more. And then even more… And even more… And so on, for ...

Why do so many software companies and developers give away so much of their work in the form of open source, writing, and speaking? Why would they invest thousand...

Building infrastructure for a software company is much harder than it should be. There are so many moving parts and so many concepts to learn. How do I build my c...