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Hello! Happy to take questions.
by eatonphil 2y ago
Hello! Happy to take questions.
- sebg 2y agoI'd love to see examples of the actual groups as well as the "Intro email"? Thanks! Really good read.
- eatonphil 2y ago> the "Intro email" Basically a condensed version of this blog post. :)
- jackconsidine 2y agoYou got any in-person NYC clubs planned for this Summer?
- eatonphil 2y agoI want to but I also got stressed out considering it because of other stuff ([0, 1]) going on. In the meantime you can come to NYC Systems [0] or the NYC Systems Coffee Club [1]! There's also Eric Zhang's NYC paper reading group [2] that seems cool but I've never been to. [0] https://nycsystems.xyz https://nycsystems.xyz [1] https://eatonphil.com/nyc-systems-coffee-club.html https://eatonphil.com/nyc-systems-coffee-club.html [2] https://notes.ekzhang.com/events/nysrg https://notes.ekzhang.com/events/nysrg
- jackconsidine 2y agoOh nice, I'll check out nyc systems. Thanks!
- bootsmann 2y agoTangentially related but what did you think about the second half of database internals?
- eatonphil 2y agoI thought the second half was better than the first half! Alex Petrov was in the reading group that time. Funnily, if I recall correctly, he felt the first half was better, in part, because he wrote it last with more experience. It's a good book though.
- bootsmann 2y agoInteresting, I put the book down at the second half because I felt it went from extremely strong to somewhat weak. If he wrote the first part last then it makes a lot more sense. Might pick it up again after this. Completely worth it for the first part already tho.
- loughnane 2y agoIs there anything you did that, in hindsight, seemed a bit too heavy-handed?
- eatonphil 2y agoI have been lucky in not needing to moderate basically anything. I thought I'd have to do some moderation. So, luckily, no I don't think so.
- otras 2y agoWhat was your process for starting the book club and gathering the first group of people to gather?
- eatonphil 2y agoMostly just posting on Twitter I think. LinkedIn, Discord, and my mailing list to a lesser degree.
- CollinEMac 2y agoWhat are your software book recommendations in general? I often find that the material in the classics (programmatic programmer, mythical man-month, etc.) are so ubiquitous that I don't get much from actually reading them.
- eatonphil 2y agoMy only recommendation is Designing Data Intensive Applications. I agree with you that most recommended books are so-so.
- yismail 2y agoIs there any way to look over past discussions on the books?