Book Club

Some of us at Lambda have formed a reading club, where we propose, vote, select, read, and discuss books, papers, posts, videos, or any material we feel is interesting or advances our skills as developers and humans.

What

Currently reading: TBD

When

The group gathers on Tuesdays at 17:00. Ping the organizer to get added to the calendar event.

How

to propose a book/post/talk

Posibles textos para leer. Pueden ser libros, capitulos de los mismos, videos de charlas interesantes, papers. Lo ideal es que lleve 1 o 2 horas leerlo.

texts are selected

• After the tuesday session, the organizer posts a new voting form in LambdaClass's #tech_talk slack channel.
• The voting is open from wednesday to friday, and the result announced on friday.

Previously Read

• Coders at work
• The Mythical Man-Month + The Tar Pit (Frederick Brooks)
  • The first two (short) chapters, published in the mid-70s on his experience in the 60s working on IBM's OS/360.
  • Versión '75
  • Versión '95
• A Pipeline Made of Airbags (Fred Hebert)
• Complexity Has to Live Somewhere (Fred Hebert)
• The Mythical Man-Month + The Tar Pit (Frederick Brooks)
  • Chapters 1 & 2
• You can Change Your Organization or Change Your Organization (James Shore)
  • We read all the entries from this autobiographic diary about how to tackle organizational change.
• Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software
  • (Video and PDF)
  • The Morning Paper's post about the paper
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Martin Kleppmann)
  • We discussed every chapter of the book.
• A Philosophy of Software Design (John Ousterhout)
  • We read the entire book.

Future suggestions

Papers

• Thinking Methodically About Performance (Brendan Gregg)
• The impact of thread-per-core architecture on application tail latency (PDF)
• Cloud computing simplified: a Berkeley view on serverless computing (PDF)
  • Post con comentarios sobre el paper en The Morning Paper
• Out of the Tar Pit (Ben Moseley, Peter Marks) (PDF)
• No Silver Bullet (Frederick P. Brooks, Jr) (PDF)
• Build Systems à la Carte (Andrey Mokhov, Neil Mitchell, Simon Peyton Jones) (PDF)

Posts

• Observability — A 3-Year Retrospective (Charity Majors)
• Deploys: It’s Not Actually About Fridays (Charity Majors)
• A conversation with Einstein's Brain Chapter 26 of The Minds I by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett)

Talks

• Distributed Systems (Martin Kleppmann)
  • Playlist
  • Video

Books

• The Missing README
• The Art of Unix Programming
• Software Architecture: the hard parts (Neal Ford)
• System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide (Alex Xu)
• Rust for Rustaceans (Jon Gjenset)
• Kill It With Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones) (Marianne Bellotti)
• The Art of Multiprocessor Programming PDF
• Exercises in programming style
• Database Internals
• Ideas that created the future (Harry R. Lewis)
• The Innovators (Walter Isaacson)
• Observability Engineering (Charity Majors)
• ZeroMQ (The Guide) (Pieter Hintjens)
  • Online
• Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
  • Online
  • PDF

How to run the book club

Members

Current Organizer: Iñaki Garay