—— The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
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Technology is a powerful force in our society. Data, software, and communication can
be used for bad: to entrench unfair power structures, to undermine human rights, and to protect vested interests. But they can also be used for good: to make underrepresented people’s voices heard, to create opportunities for everyone, and to avert disasters. This book is dedicated to everyone working toward the good.
Computing is pop culture. [...] Pop culture holds a disdain for history. Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you’re participating. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future—it’s living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where [their culture came from].
— Alan Kay, in interview with Dr Dobb’s Journal (2012)
- 1. Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Applications
- 2. Data Models and Query Languages
- 3. Storage and Retrieval
- 4. Encoding and Evolution