Hey folks, this is the 7th book in a series of readings I run over Google Groups. There are about 1800 people in the group and 300-800 join each reading. While we often read books on database internals this one seems pretty relevant to any developer working on systems that scale. Hope to have you in the group!
Also even if you don't want to join this particular reading, join the mailing list for the overall book club (on /bookclub.html) because we're going to read Designing Data Intensive Applications 2nd Edition together after it comes out this winter.
raphinou•3h ago
I wasn't aware of this initiative, looks interesting and such a good idea in hindsight!
Might be a good help to keep the enthousiasm and energy to read a technical book in its entirety!
sandeep1998•2h ago
I am so surprised to hear about this book reading club, I don't know how it works but I will join and try to work through the book like everyone else.
fire2dev•2h ago
Hi Phil, I want to join the group. The form asks "chapter discussion starter email", what do you mean by that?
eatonphil•2h ago
It's explained on the page. :) Each week someone kicks off discussion. The form helps me find a volunteer for each chapter.
It's what makes it sustainable for me to keep running this group.
evaXhill•1h ago
This seems great! Would love to join however I can only seem to find the 2008 and 2012 pdf of The Art of Multiprocessor Programming for free, is there a link for the 2020 version?
Aurornis•1h ago
It’s not a free book. I believe that comment was a gentle nudge to remind people they actually need to buy it to support the author.
evaXhill•30m ago
Thanks! I was just confirming because the older versions were available for free, but I do agree
thedima•1h ago
Sounds like an amazing idea. Looking forward to it!
rudedogg•1h ago
Signed up. Concurrency has been a bit of a blindspot for me outside the basics. It'll be nice to be able to really evaluate approaches and understand the internals.
twolf910616•43m ago
Hello! I just signed up. Is there a way I can view past book discussions?
tbbfjotllf•16m ago
This seems interesting. Any specific reason why it's over emails instead of something like a forum or discord?
xeromal•4m ago
Google groups is a forum but discord has horrible historical retention.
xeromal•4m ago
Thanks for this! Signed up. Do we get an invite to the group.
eatonphil•3h ago
Also even if you don't want to join this particular reading, join the mailing list for the overall book club (on /bookclub.html) because we're going to read Designing Data Intensive Applications 2nd Edition together after it comes out this winter.
raphinou•3h ago
Might be a good help to keep the enthousiasm and energy to read a technical book in its entirety!
sandeep1998•2h ago