Pending and Ongoing - read and watch

To read online🔗

• Ensuring parity between Build and Production environments using Jenkins and Docker
• The origin of complexity
• BLUF: The Military Standard That Can Make Your Writing More Powerful
• The Ideal Versus the Real: Revisiting the History of Virtual Machines and Containers
• Gradual Typing from Theory to Practice
• Demystifying Containers - Part I: Kernel Space
• Demystifying Containers - Part II: Container Runtimes
• No Compromises: Distributed Transactions with Consistency, Availability, and Performance
• Blurred Persistence: Efficient Transactions in Persistent Memory
• A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels
• Exploring NUMA on Amazon Cloud Instances
• Experience with Rules-Based Programming for Distributed Concurrent Fault-Tolerant Code
• Consensus on Transaction Commit
• Blade: A data center garbage collector
• Firmament: Fast, centralized cluster scheduling at scale
• Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
• SAT SMT by example
• CUE data/conf validation language
• PAMELA (Probabalistic Advanced Modeling and Execution Learning Architecture)
• Should your specification language be typed
• Partisan - TCP based membership for Erlang/Elixir
• LASP distributed programming model
• Logic and lattices for distributed programing

Books🔗

Currently reading:🔗

• Notes on the synthesis of form (there is also a pdf out there)

To buy🔗

What Is a Masterpiece? (Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures, No 11)

• Envisioning Information
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Instead of Education
• Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step
• Man and His Symbols
• Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
• Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education
• Technology, Management and Society
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
• The disappearance of childhood
• Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man : Critical Edition
• Visual Thinking
• The psychology of the child

Excellent read🔗

• https://pvk.ca/Blog/2019/02/25/the-unscalable-thread-pool/

Mini book reviews, starting from the 17th of march 2019🔗

The book of numbers🔗

Some interesting parts about finding what sequences of numbers are?

Most of it was not too interesting to me...

I don't remember the result exactly but there was something really interesting, there are only 7 (or 9? or another random number) bases possible to cleanly factorize numbers with gaussian primes (primes in the complex plane). I found that fascinating when I read it! There are some numbers like that, that are not 1, or 2, or some prime, or e, or pi, or a humonguous number, just a 7 or a 9! That was the most fascinating math stuff I has read for a while.

Hidden order🔗

Building a model to simulate what is pompuously called "cas", which is pretty much emerging complex behaviours from simple agents. Lots of quite interesting parts about biology! Relatively light in bulshit even though it has its part.

It has pretty nice content on what might be the beginnings of the discipline. Might be worth a reread when I get to my MMO game!

SOA Patterns🔗

This book has good informative content! But it is written in an extremely laborious way... This was a huge bore to read, painful... Many parts did not resist the test of time. We can probably extract a relevant and relatively timeless 40p books out of this ~250p book.

The craft of scientific presentations🔗

Excellent content! Very practical advices on how to prepare and deliver slide based presentations, valid for not only scientists, but also engineers (and maybe/probable others). However the book repeat itself so much that I think it could easily be cut in half. I understand repeating yourself a little, but that much repeating should be reserved for 500+ p. books... The author also has a passion for namedropping. Honestly you could cut that book by 2/3rd and keep the content intact, some limited repeating included.

Still I recommend the read!

Designing Distributed Systems🔗

This is basically a kubernetes tutorial... There is good content in this but it is like a fifth or a tenth of the book. At least the kubernetes parts are quick to skip. A few hours read.

Domain-Driven Design🔗

This is a thick book... I enjoyed it as one would enjoy reading a mix of a dictionary and a theological studies book... This was a slug. There are maybe ~50p of valuable-to-me stuff in there, food for thoughts. Read the bits about ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, the 17th part, then breeze through stuff written in bold, and you should be fine.

Music🔗

• Music theory
• Tonality
• Modes
• Microtonal music in live - scale of fifths
• Musical temperament
• Octave
• Diatonic scale
• Whole tone scale
• Octatonic scale
• Harmonic series
• Reason for the piano layout

G sharp and A flat are not the same note

Understanding equal temperament

Minor scales - Natural, Harmonic, Melodic