Book: You Are Not Expected to Understand This: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World by Torie Bosch [1] Came across this book randomly on Twitter and picked i

Book: You Are Not Expected to Understand This: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World by Torie Bosch [1] Came across this book randomly on Twitter and picked it up. The book is broken into 26 essays about significant pieces of code (defined vaguely), ranging from the Morris Worm to Pagerank to the popup window and the 1x1 invisible gif and how these shaped the modern tech landscape. Lovely read overall, and really shows how pieces of code you work on today can end up having long lasting impact on how society perceives technology as a whole. Best of all, it's not a heavy read, but offers a lot of concise info that can send you down wormholes of wikipedia. Paper: Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service [2] Database systems have always been a passion of mine, and the paper from AWS about how DynamoDB works internally is an incredible look into what makes a NoSQL DB platform capable of serving 89 million requests per second _(this is in the intro)_ which is incredible scale. Always good to see how engineering decisions shape products, and it's been interesting to see Dynamo take shape over the last decade _(though I recommend most folks to stay away from it because of it's mad pricing)_ [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60254955-you-are-not-expected-to-understand-this https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60254955-you-are-not-exp... [2]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc22-elhemali.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc22-elhemali.pdf