Episode · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2024-09-25
Gergely Orosz & Simon Willison: books mentioned on The Pragmatic Engineer
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Simon Willison recommended Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann, Equoid: A Laundry Novella by Charles Stross, and The October Man (Rivers of London) by Ben Aaronovitch.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann is widely regarded as an essential guide for engineers building large-scale back-end systems and distributed architectures.
Recommended“Martin kon's book designing data intensive applications is here it's it's it's on my shelf actually absolutely incredible the Blue Sky Team told me Martin kton advises them that this is the book they have all on their shelf”
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Equoid: A Laundry Novella
Recommended“so I like um there's turns there's um Charles stros does the laundry file series which is about sort of secret like MI5 style Wizards”
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The October Man (Rivers of London)
Recommended“there's the river of London series by Ben aronovich which are metropolitan police officer who gets Tangled Up In Magic I really enjoy those”
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