Reviews and Comments

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 Turns out, many basic facts about the world I knew were outdated.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

How to turn the wheel of Samsara several times in life, but ultimately listen to the river.

I was caught by the title and it proved to be correct. The book unveils deeply ingrained but incorrect patterns in our work language. It also shows better ways to deal with normal and extreme situations at work. The main example of this book is SS El Faro, a cargo ship lost at sea. The entire crew was lost too.

Badly written. A quarter of the book is a pompous attempt to sell the book itself. The rest is an attempt to structure the tools of thought that are natural to any educated person. By tools, I mean Occam's razor, inversion, and the like. The best there is some quotes from smart people.

The book about a man of unlimited power who had no choice but to remain alone in an infinite universe.

You can train your mind to be happy and this book tries to explain how to do it.

This is a mimic of Tao Te Ching. Short and sweet.

Do you know what net negative churn means? This is a very useful concept, and it's just one of many perfectly explained in this book.

A nice example of asabiyyah in action.

Написано легко и с душой, хоть и без особой структуры. Почти в формате "кейс - разбор кейса", но не совсем. Немного есть о понятии картины мира, но о картинах мира лучше почитать у Тарасова. Немного есть о том, как подготовиться к сложному разговору, но про это есть контент получше, например, "Сложные разговоры". Наверное, самое полезное в этой книге - это разбор некоторых классических ситуаций вроде "заказчик напрямую звонит сотруднику".

The book is badly written. It's 10 times longer than it should be, and it's full of useless marketing and platitudes. The idea of the book is fine. Find and read a summary instead of this.