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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.

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.

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.

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 Turns out, many basic facts about the world I knew were outdated.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

Well-written. Covers everything you need, from data modeling to monitoring. The only important thing missing there is how to work with database schema changes.

It's a great book if you're interested in wide-column databases.