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Chapters 1–7 of the second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications are now available in early release (sorry, O'Reilly subscribers only at this point). Among other changes, you may notice that we now talk about “sharding” rather than “partitioning” www.oreilly.com/library/view...
Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there...
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March 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Strongly agree – the talk is a must-watch if you want to get better at writing
One of my all-time favorite talks: how to write so people will care what you have to say.

First watched it many years ago and I still think about it constantly.

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LEADERSHIP LAB: Writing Beyond the Academy 1.23.15
YouTube video by UChicago Social Sciences
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March 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM