Really liked it
5 stars
Solid book, good advice.
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Generalist IT specialist. Makes the simple out of the complex.
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Sergey Machulskis finished reading Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier
Sergey Machulskis reviewed A Faint Heart by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Under the same roof in the same flat on the same fourth storey lived two …
It was ok
4 stars
Sergey Machulskis finished reading A Faint Heart by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Faint Heart by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Under the same roof in the same flat on the same fourth storey lived two young men, colleagues in the …
Sergey Machulskis reviewed Software Architect Elevator by Gregor Hohpe
Being an architect is no longer about drawing UML diagrams and studying architectural styles. Rather, …
Really liked it
5 stars
It's a revised version of "37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation" which was very impressive.
It's a revised version of "37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation" which was very impressive.
Sergey Machulskis finished reading Software Architect Elevator by Gregor Hohpe
Software Architect Elevator by Gregor Hohpe
Being an architect is no longer about drawing UML diagrams and studying architectural styles. Rather, today’s most valuable architects modernize …
Sergey Machulskis reviewed Teams That Work by Scott Tannenbaum
Really liked it
4 stars
Good summary of research on the topic. Learned some new concepts like "team transactional memory". Learned that quality communication is much more important than a lot of communication. Learned that going to a bar together and doing similar "team building" activities don't reflect team performance at all.
-1 for US-centric examples and strange text structure.
Good summary of research on the topic. Learned some new concepts like "team transactional memory". Learned that quality communication is much more important than a lot of communication. Learned that going to a bar together and doing similar "team building" activities don't reflect team performance at all.
-1 for US-centric examples and strange text structure.
Sergey Machulskis finished reading Teams That Work by Scott Tannenbaum
Sergey Machulskis reviewed Database Internals by Alex Petrov
When it comes to choosing, using, and maintaining a database, understanding its internals is essential. …
Really liked it
5 stars
This is a peak into complexity of modern databases. The narrative is disjointed sometimes, but overall it's a good overview of database internals. I didn't quite like the first part of the book (B-trees, LSM-trees and such), but the second part about distributed systems and their problems was very solid.
Good refresher for anybody who read DDIA and almost forgot what it was about.
This is a peak into complexity of modern databases. The narrative is disjointed sometimes, but overall it's a good overview of database internals. I didn't quite like the first part of the book (B-trees, LSM-trees and such), but the second part about distributed systems and their problems was very solid.
Good refresher for anybody who read DDIA and almost forgot what it was about.
Sergey Machulskis finished reading Database Internals by Alex Petrov
Database Internals by Alex Petrov
When it comes to choosing, using, and maintaining a database, understanding its internals is essential. But with so many distributed …
Sergey Machulskis reviewed 100 Go Mistakes by Teiva Harsanyi
Really liked it
5 stars
The best book on Go so far. In the past 8 years I made most of the mistakes listed here and sometimes they took a really long time to debug. So I was glad to see them all at the same place. Most of the mistakes are not trivial and actually pretty deep.
Sergey Machulskis finished reading 100 Go Mistakes by Teiva Harsanyi
Sergey Machulskis reviewed Factfulness by Hans Rosling
It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better …
It was amazing
5 stars
Very interesting read. Turns out, many basic facts about the world I knew were outdated. The book is well-written and teaches a dozen of tricks on how to make better decisions. The book's website is nice too: www.gapminder.org
Very interesting read. Turns out, many basic facts about the world I knew were outdated. The book is well-written and teaches a dozen of tricks on how to make better decisions. The book's website is nice too: www.gapminder.org
Sergey Machulskis finished reading Factfulness by Hans Rosling
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. …