Eric Hotinger
2025 Reads
Books
- Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, 1) by Rebecca Yarros
- Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen by Mara Branscombe
- Dopamine Detox: A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Get Your Brain to Do Hard Things by Thibaut Meurisse
- The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed by Temple Grandin
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Blogs
- Databases in 2024: A Year in Review by Andy Pavlo
- Booting Databricks VMs 7x Faster for Serverless Compute
2024 Reads
Books
- * The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore by Douglas Gillette
- * Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- * Endurance by Alfred Lansing
- * Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
- Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World by Emily Balcetis
- Tress of the Emerald Sea: A Cosmere Novel by Brandon Sanderson
- * Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim Grover, Shari Wenk
- The Three-Body Problem Series by Cixin Liu
- The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
- Bushido, The Soul Of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
- * A Psalm for the Wild-Built: A Monk and Robot Book (Monk & Robot, 1) by Becky Chambers
- * A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book (Monk & Robot, 2) by Becky Chambers
Blogs
- Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices
- Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture
- Skeleton Key Gen AI Jailbreak
- Resource Management in Aurora Serverless
- Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS
- Life Lessons from the First Half-Century of My Career by David Patterson
Papers
DBMS
- What Goes Around Comes Around… And Around… by Michael Stonebraker and Andrew Pavlo
- Resource Management in Aurora Serverless
Job/Cluster Scheduling
- Apollo: Scalable and Coordinated Scheduling for Cloud-Scale Computing by Boutin, Microsoft Research et al
- Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center by Hindman, et al
- Hawk: Hybrid Datacenter Scheduling by Delgado, et al
- Apache Hadoop YARN: Yet Another Resource Negotiator by Vavilapallih, et al
- Tarcil: reconciling scheduling speed and quality in large shared clusters by Delimitrou, et al
- Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg by Verma, et al
- Container Loading in AWS Lambda by Marc Brooker
- Quincy: Fair Scheduling for Distributed Computing Clusters by Isgard, et al
- Mercury: Hybrid Centralized and Distributed Scheduling in Large Shared Clusters by Karanasos, et al
- Sparrow: distributed, low latency scheduling by Ousterhout et al
2023 Reads
Below is a list of papers and books I’ve read in 2023 with some minor notes around each. Each section represents a general theme/category for software development.
Books
- * Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia
- * The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Bogle
- Never Finished by David Goggins
- * Die With Zero by Bill Perkins
- * How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- * Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
- The Way Out by Alan Gordon, Alon Ziv
- Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- * The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Papers
- No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accident in Software Engineering
- FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store
- Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications
- Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%
- On-demand Container Loading in AWS Lambda
- Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service
- Elastic cloud services: scaling snowflake’s control plane
- The Story of AWS Glue
- Fleming W, Romas M, Dean B, and Rob L, “A Framework for the Effective Adoption of Software Development Methodologies”
- Davide F, Burak T, and Markku O, “On the Effects of Programming and Testing Skills on External Quality and Productivity in a Test-Driven Development Context”
- Nicole F, Margaret-Anne S, Chandra M, Thomas Z, Brian H, and Jenna B, “The SPACE of developer productivity”
- Lan C, Emerson M, Mark C, Ciera J, Collin G, Andrea K, Nan Z, and Elizabeth K, “What improves developer productivity at google? code quality”
- Thomas Z, “Measuring Developer Productivity and the New Future of Work”
- Margaret-Anne S and Alexey Z, “Disrupting developer productivity one bot at a time”
- Terese B, Antonio M, and Jan B, “Technical debt cripples software developer productivity: a longitudinal study on developers’ daily software development work”
- Michaela G, Margaret-Anne S, and Abi N, “An Actionable Framework for Understanding and Improving Developer Experience”
- Nischal S, Colton B, Titus B, and Chris P, “Here we go again: why is it difficult for developers to learn another programming language?”
Blogs
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-aws-lambda-response-streaming/
- https://aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/
2022 Reads
Books
- * Designing Distributed Control Systems: A Pattern Language Approach (Wiley Software Patterns Series)
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
- Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind
- The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Epic Run that Inspired the World’s Greatest Foot Race
- * Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
- * Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
- * Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life
- * Leonardo da Vinci
- Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
- * The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World
- * The Way of Zen
- * Tao: The Watercourse Way
- Unlimited Memory
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
- House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City)
- The Christmas Pig
- The Midnight Library: A Novel
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- * Atomic Habits by James Clear
- * Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Papers
Goodreads
- My profile: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/133308963-eric-hotinger (feel free to send recommendations!)
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