Rating: 7.1/10. Identity-Native Infrastructure Access Management: Preventing Breaches by Eliminating Secrets and Adopting Zero Trust by Ev Kontsevoy, Sakshyam Shah, Peter Conrad Book about security best practices is aimed at enterprise and large-scale systems, with the goal of protecting cloud infrastructure in the most secure way. It also aims to prevent the accidental sharing of…
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Wanderers, Kings, Merchants by Peggy Mohan
Rating: 8.3/10. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India Through its Languages by Peggy Mohan Book about the languages of India and its history, written by a linguistics researcher, focusing on language change and how languages evolved through contact over time. It is an enjoyable read for anybody interested in linguistics, especially about languages that…
Immigration in the 21st Century by Givens, Navarre, Mohanty
Rating: 7.2/10. Immigration in the 21st Century: The Comparative Politics of Immigration Policy by Terri Givens, Rachel Navarre, Pete Mohanty A academic book that discusses the history and politics of immigration, with a primary focus on the US, Australia, and Canada, and countries in Europe, including Britain, France, and Germany. It explores how these countries…
The Canadian Regime by Malcolmson, Myers, Baier, Bateman
Rating: 8.6/10. The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada by Patrick Malcolmson, Richard Myers, Gerald Baier, Tom Bateman Textbook that explains the structure, principles, and patterns of legal processes in the Canadian democratic government system. It includes the constitution, political policies, various parts of the government, and how they make decisions. The…
Health Care Operations Management by Langabeer and Helton
Rating: 7.5/10. Health Care Operations Management: A Systems Perspective by James R. Langabeer II, Jeffrey Helton Textbook about healthcare operations, primarily focuses on hospitals in the United States. Several chapters were invaluable, providing specific information about how healthcare works and definitions of commonly used terms in the industry, such as ratios for reasoning about operational…
Learning React by Alex Banks and Eve Porcello
Rating: 7.9/10. Learning React: Modern Patterns for Developing React Apps by Alex Banks and Eve Porcello This is a good introductory book on React that starts from the basics, including JavaScript and React components, then goes on to explain the usages of many different React hooks, how they work, and in what situations they should…
Roadside MBA by Michael Mazzeo, Paul Oyer, Scott Schaefer
Rating: 8.0/10. Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Executives and Small Business Owners by Michael Mazzeo, Paul Oyer, Scott Schaefer Book where a trio of economists go on several road trips around the US to examine small businesses: their business models and strategies. This book showcases a lot of variety and is grouped into…
The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship by Fairlie, Kroff, Miranda, Zolas
Rating: 7.7/10. The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups by Robert W. Fairlie, Zachary Kroff, Javier Miranda, Nikolas Zolas This book presents a primary economic research on startups and entrepreneurship in the United States, not limited to tech startups but encompassing all kinds of new businesses. Many surveys have…
Cloud Native by Scholl, Swanson, Jausovec
Rating: 7.4/10. Cloud Native: Using Containers, Functions, and Data to Build Next-Generation Applications by Boris Scholl, Trent Swanson, Peter Jausovec Book about cloud design patterns, and I got bored about halfway through, mostly because it had a heavy focus on distributed systems and coordinating multiple services using cloud infrastructure, which is not very relevant to…
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
Rating: 7.8/10. Book covering multiple topics in politics, ecology, and sociology — the main argument of the book is a case against “Authoritarian High Modernism,” which essentially refers to the idea of imposing top-down control over society and using scientific and mathematical principles to enhance efficiency. This concept is most notably exemplified in the authoritarian…
Programming Typescript by Boris Cherny
Rating: 8.0/10. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale by Boris Cherny Book about the TypeScript language, which adds a strong typing system and a type inference engine to JavaScript. The material is fairly advanced and assumes a solid understanding of JavaScript features. It covers many advanced TypeScript features, including a rough sketch of how…
SQL Antipatterns by Bill Karwin
Rating: 7.5/10. SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming by Bill Karwin Book about different ways to misuse database schemas, intended for intermediate-level programmers, discusses various common patterns that junior programmers often employ when designing database schemas. I found the anti-patterns to be good, but the proposed solutions are often lacking; they tend to…