The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
by Martin Kleppmann
Recommended by Gergely Orosz
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Programming, Technology, and Nonfiction.
Want to know how the best software engineers and architects structure their applications to make them scalable, reliable, and maintainable in the long term This book examines the key principles, algorithms, and tradeoffs of data systems, using the internals of various popular software packages and frameworks as examples.Tools at your disposal are...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Programming, Technology, and Nonfiction.
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Gergely Orosz
“The book @intensivedata has got to be the most informationpacked one I've read. Summary of all major DB storage techniques, explained in 35 pages in the book. Thread. 1. "Plain old" keyvalue store in a textfile 2. Indexing a keyvalue store (e.g. a CSV) with hash indexes (1/6)”
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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