Comment on The Hacker News Top 40 books of 2023
spacedogroy@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I’ve been reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications and it really is a great book, specifically for backend engineers.
Comment on The Hacker News Top 40 books of 2023
spacedogroy@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I’ve been reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications and it really is a great book, specifically for backend engineers.
bugsmith@programming.dev 5 months ago
That one has been on my list for a while. Are you finding yourself able to easily apply what is taught to your day-to-day?
spacedogroy@feddit.uk 5 months ago
A lot of it has reinforced my understanding around distributed databases and transactions. In my day-to-day, I’ve not really had need to use this knowledge as pretty much all our data stores are hosted in cloud platforms and we’re operating on low datasets and traffic.