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Background Work always manages to throw interesting problems my way and this one was particularly interesting. Our telephone server infrastructure and the associated cloud services were spread across two AWS regions - Singapore & Mumbai. This was primarily done to comply with Indian Data Protection Laws which mandated that customer data associated with some critical areas of business must stay within the country. We had run these two regions as independent entities, with code changes being deployed uniformly across them. ...

I regret not picking this up sooner. This book represents the epitome of what a good story is for me - lovable characters, a very human story arc, lots of snide humor and an ending that leaves me in tears. 5/5! Would recommend it to everyone!

This book had been on my TO-READ list for a long time. It came up again while I was perusing Dan Luu’s Programming book list. I’ve always wanted to look behind the curtains and see how the magic worked, so I finally bought it. I used bootlin to read through Linux 5.7.2 source. They provide a really good search system and linked definitions. The book describes kernel version 2.6. You might want to keep this site open to see how things have changed since then. ...

This book was a parting gift and I was eager to devour it as soon as I got it. Through it’s elegantly typeset pages sprinkled with an assortment of pictures, it details the story of Jonathan Livingston, a seagull who finds flying to be more than a means to an end. The story follows the predictable arc wherein the rookie who finds an inalienable truth gets ostracized and excommunicated for it. Later, after traveling wide and far and having reached uber level greatness, he returns to extol his wisdom to the blind masses in a more digestible form, enlightening them about the possibilities that lie beyond. ...

Words cannot describe the excruciating pain I felt as I plowed through this book. It was my stubborn need to finish the book that kept me holding on till the end. The book can be described as a verbal vomit where more time is spent describing the magical circus with little to no attention being paid to the protagonist or any of the characters. The story is bland, and the character development is lacking but the setting is exquisitely described to the last grain of sand. The circus and the description of all the attractions within the circus take up about 80% of the book with a half baked plot thrown in for the sake of it. ...