Software Internals Book Club

Email-based book club run by Phil Eaton. 2500+ members. Focus: databases, distributed systems, software performance. Format: Google Group email discussion, 1-2 chapters per week over ~3 months, weekend recap from a rotating discussion leader.

Selection criteria

• 350–550 pages
• Specific software topic (not philosophy)
• Not a textbook
• Suitable for senior developers and above

Currently reading

• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces — cohort page

Previously read

• The Art of Multiprocessor Programming — cohort page
• Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems — cohort page
• Writing for Developers — cohort page
• Database Design and Implementation — cohort page
• Understanding Software Dynamics — cohort page
• Systems Performance — cohort page
• Database Internals — cohort page

Potential future books

• The Garbage Collection Handbook (2nd ed.)
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications (2nd ed.)
• High Performance Browser Networking
• Concurrency: The Works of Leslie Lamport
• Fault Tolerant Design
• Replication: Theory and Practice
• The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis (publisher link on source appeared duplicated with the Replication entry — verify)
• Virtual Machines
• On Transactional Concurrency Control
• Feedback Control for Computer Systems
• Hacker's Delight (2nd ed.)
• Transaction Processing
• Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk
• Building a Debugger
• Readings in Database Systems (the "Red Book")