The months main into re:Invent are thrilling (and sometimes exhausting). I spend most of my time doing analysis, assembly with sensible engineers, and growing tales to share with you on stage. It’s great. But it doesn’t go away me with a lot time to learn completely for pleasure.
So, within the weeks that comply with re:Invent, I attempt to make time to work by means of the ever-growing pile of books accumulating on my nightstand and all through my workplace. It’s a shedding battle. Then once more, when was it ever value doing one thing simple?
Here’s a brief listing of issues I’ve began, completed, and lately added to the pile…
- The most necessary factor I’ve learn lately was Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics by Juan Enriquez. It clearly lays out how our ethics and morals change underneath the affect of know-how in a reasonably quick period of time. For instance, utilizing gene enhancing know-how comparable to CRISPR to change a toddler’s genome could also be unethical proper now, however our grandchildren may really feel otherwise, understanding that we might have eliminated or edited a gene identified to trigger breast most cancers. At a time of maximum polarization, this guide challenges us to consider how shortly mainstream opinions can shift and why.
- In mild of latest election outcomes worldwide, and the upcoming presidential race within the United States, I made a decision to re-read The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies by Susan Jacoby. It supplies superb historic perception into how politics and the politicians that signify us have shifted away from rational and mental debate to who can shout the loudest. It’s fairly startling to see how a lot public language has devolved prior to now few many years. If this can be a subject you’re serious about, I urge you to learn Douglas Hofstadter’s 1964 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.
- I lastly had an opportunity to complete Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain by Charles Leerhsen. As a fellow world traveler, with an analogous view of the right way to stay, I’ve at all times been impressed by Bourdain’s storytelling skills. He was an empathetic narrator that targeted on individuals and their experiences. This guide is in regards to the man behind the tales that helped deliver these narratives to life.
- As lots of you realize, I’m a lifelong AFC Ajax supporter, so I actually loved Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s biography Adrenaline: My Untold Stories. Zlatan began his profession at Ajax and his spotlight reel from these days will do extra justice than my phrases can:
- I picked up Atlas van een bezette stad 1940-1945 by Bianca Stigter, which covers the German occupation of Amsterdam within the type of an illustrated Atlas. It is mind-blowing to see the ways in which the Nazi occupation nonetheless haunts town. The guide is in Dutch (sorry for now to my English readers), nevertheless it was tailored right into a four-hour lengthy documentary by Stigter’s accomplice Steve McQueen, known as “Occupied City” which debuted at Cannes final yr.
- I began studying Rust for Rustaceans: Idiomatic Programming of Experienced Developers by John Gjengset, nevertheless it’s a bit extra superior than I would like in the intervening time, so I picked Command-line Rust: A Project-based Primer for Writing Rust CLIs by Ken Youens-Clark and it seems to be promising thus far. I’ll present an replace as I progress.
- Just for enjoyable, I purchased the fourth guide in John Burdett’s Sonchai Jitpleecheep collection: The Godfather of Kathmandu. If you could have ever spent any prolonged time period in Bangkok, you’ll take pleasure in this collection. The writing is totally sensible. I’m not completed but, however thus far, it’s pretty much as good because the earlier three books.
- The very last thing I’ll go away you with is a paper I lately learn from the Netflix Technology Blog, “Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices” by Liwei Guo, Anush Moorthy, Li-Heng Chen, Vinicius Carvalho, Aditya Mavlankar, Agata Opalach, Adithya Prakash, Kyle Swanson, Jessica Tweneboah, Subbu Venkatrav, Lishan Zhu — It goes into element about rebuilding their video processing pipeline on their microservice-based platform Cosmos.
If there’s one thing that you simply’ve learn or are studying that you simply’d suggest, let me know on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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