Tag: book review
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Highlights of the Books I Read in 2023: A Journey Through Ideas, Insights, and Adventures
The year 2023 offered an eclectic mix of literary landscapes, and I had the pleasure of traversing some truly remarkable ones. Here’s a peek into the books that sparked curiosity, broadened perspectives, and left me with lingering thoughts: Delving into the Minds of Machines and Man: Navigating the Turbulent Tides of History: Silicon Valley and…
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“The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life” by Anu Partanen
Anu Partanen is a Finnish journalist now living and working in the United States. In her new book “The Nordic Theory of Everything. In Search of a Better Life” she compares how Nordic/Finnish and American societies address key issues such as healthcare, education, parental leaves, unemployment. This books hits close to home. I’m a naturalized Finnish…
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“High Performance MySQL” by Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, and Vadim Tkachenko; O’Reilly Media
Peter and Vadim are long-term contributors to MySQL open source code base and are the founders of Percona, MySQL consultancy. This is really THE book about MySQL written by engineers who have spent more than a decade working on MySQL code. The book is equally valuable to devops and DB admins, as well as software…
