Books
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- Books being read, finished, or queued, grouped by reading status
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- 2026-07-22
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- 2026-07-22
Long-form works being read, finished, or queued. Each entry is one line; status comes from the page's frontmatter.
Reading
Finished
Want to read
- operating-systems-three-easy-pieces — Arpaci-Dusseau OS textbook (virtualization, concurrency, persistence)
- art-of-multiprocessor-programming — Herlihy & Shavit on linearizability and lock-free data structures
- concurrency-control-and-recovery-in-database-systems — Bernstein/Hadzilacos/Goodman foundational DB concurrency text (1987, free PDF)
- writing-for-developers — Sarna & Dunlop on technical blogging as a systems skill
- database-design-and-implementation — Sciore's SimpleDB build-it-as-you-read pedagogical DBMS book
- understanding-software-dynamics — Sites on observing real software with KUtrace
- systems-performance — Brendan Gregg's Linux performance methodology (2nd ed.)
- database-internals — Petrov's two-halves DB engineering survey (storage + distributed)
Abandoned
Sources
Tracked recommendation feeds — check periodically for new picks.
| Source | URL | Last checked | Next check | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phil Eaton's Software Internals Book Club | https://eatonphil.com/bookclub.html | 2026-05-12 | 2026-08-12 | 1 currently reading + 7 finished added 2026-05-12; ~15 speculative future picks below |
Eaton bookclub — speculative future picks
Not yet committed by the club. Publisher links live in each page's url: frontmatter.
- garbage-collection-handbook — Jones/Hosking/Moss, 2nd ed., CRC Press
- designing-data-intensive-applications — Kleppmann, 2nd ed., O'Reilly
- high-performance-browser-networking — Grigorik, O'Reilly (free at hpbn.co)
- concurrency-works-of-leslie-lamport — Malkhi (ed.), ACM Books
- fault-tolerant-design — Dubrova, Springer
- replication-theory-and-practice — Charron-Bost/Pedone/Schiper (eds.), Springer LNCS
- art-of-computer-systems-performance-analysis — Jain, Wiley (publisher URL on source page was duplicate-suspect)
- virtual-machines-versatile-platforms — Smith & Nair, Morgan Kaufmann
- on-transactional-concurrency-control — Graefe, Morgan & Claypool / Springer
- feedback-control-for-computer-systems — Janert, O'Reilly
- hackers-delight — Warren, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley
- transaction-processing — Gray & Reuter, Morgan Kaufmann
- memory-systems-cache-dram-disk — Jacob/Ng/Wang, Morgan Kaufmann
- building-a-debugger — Sy Brand, No Starch
- readings-in-database-systems — Bailis/Hellerstein/Stonebraker (eds.), redbook.io (free)