Friday, July 31, 2020

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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Top 5 books I have read this year.  Fantastic story, characters, descriptions, 5/5 Stars.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Checkov scanner and Terraform Security

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Bridgecrew, the company that sells a commercial version of the free  checkov  Infrastructure as code security scanner, has published  th...

Design Docs

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Malte Ubl (inventor of accelerated mobile pages -- AMP) at Google published the guidelines he uses at Google for design documents .  It...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

The Last Theorem by Frederik Pohl & Arthur C Clarke

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I read this one when it came out in 2008 and did not remember the space alien plot (it is forgettable). It is no better this time, 2/5 Stars...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

operational incidents: management prevents learning

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John Allspaw presents two years of learning from the field , exposing interesting anti-patterns and common practices that prevent lea...

The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

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I read this book in the late 1960s when I was reading Renault's Arthurian works and did not like it then.  It was no better this time.  ...

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State by Barton Gellman

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Better than the other Snowden books, 5/5 Stars.
Monday, July 13, 2020

The Last Emprox by John Scalzi

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A wonderful conclusion to the trilogy, this finale has great plot twists, character arcs, and a satisfying conclusion.  Scalzi stays within ...

BTRFS @ scale

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The B-Tree File System (BTRFS) on Linux is gaining ground inside of Facebook for many use cases, workloads, and applications at enormous sca...

Anti-Patterns and Patterns in continuous delivery practices

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A bunch of people have recently picked up on Matt Skelton's talk (and his book) to dispel some of the most-common myths and articulate ...