Software Internals Book Club

I run a little email book club reading through books on software internals. We've had about 300-600 folk join us for each reading so far.

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How it works

All discussion is via a Google Group. There will be no Zoom or Google Hangout, it will purely be over text email.

Each weekend, one person will send out an email recapping the chapter or asking questions to start discussion. It can be as short as a paragraph or two just to get discussion going. Anyone else can chime in afterward.

I will solicit these chapter discussion leaders before we start each new book.

Loose criteria

The focus is on books that would be interesting and useful to senior+ developers (whatever that means to you), though anyone is welcome.

• Between 350-550 pages
• Focused on a specific software topic, not on philosophy of software in general
• Generally not textbooks
• Completable in around 3 months reading 1-2 chapters per week

Potential future books

• The Garbage Collection Handbook 2nd Edition (link)
• Designing Data Intensive Applications (link)
• The Art of Multiprocessor Programming (link)
• High Performance Browser Networking (link)
• Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems (link)
• Concurrency: The Works of Leslie Lamport (link)
• Fault Tolerant Design (link)

Have a book that fits the above criteria? Let me know!

Currently reading

• Database Design and Implementation

In the past we've read

• Understanding Software Dynamics
• Systems Performance
• Database Internals