Software Engineer and Writer
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: February 6th, 2018 Reading Time: A month “Perfect algorithms may not have perfect implementations.” And perfect books
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Rating: ★★ Date Finished: January 29th, 2018 Reading Time: Ten days This is the most cliché book I have ever read. The Phoenix Project uses a contrived
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I recently hit one hundred followers on Goodreads. I’m not sure what it means. Goodreads, with a user base purportedly in the tens of millions, is virtually unknown in the world of social media marketing. Performing a Google search for
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2017 has come to a close and I have never been more fond of reading. This year, I finished my fifty-second book–Grocery–on December 31st at 11:45PM. I made my way through 15,000 pages while working full time and guiding a side
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Docker Deep Dive by Nigel Poulton Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: January 10th, 2018 Reading Time: A day Docker Deep Dive (v4) is a fun and useful introduction to Docker. Learning by Google searches and Stack Overflow will lead to bad
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Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlman Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 31st, 2017 Reading Time: Two days Grocery was the last book I read in 2017 and it was a formidable contender for top
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More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 28th, 2017 Reading Time: Three years MMTG provides an insider’s take on the history of hedge funds using language
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Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip Fisher Rating: ★★ Date Finished: December 26th, 2017 Reading Time: Three years, shelved for a long time This book is significant and its author is a legend. However, we’re kidding
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin Rating: ★★★ Date Finished: December 24th, 2017 Reading Time: An afternoon This book wasn’t what I was expecting. I guess that’s what
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Rating: ★ Date Finished: December 23rd, 2017 Reading Time: An afternoon I’m not one to judge a book by its cover, but the frontage of The Predictors somehow managed to encapsulate everything wrong with America’s perception of tech in the
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