https://ehotinger.com/categories/papers/ Recent content in papers on Eric Hotinger Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Thu, 02 Jan 2025 10:24:56 -0800 https://ehotinger.com/blog/2025-papers-and-books/ Thu, 02 Jan 2025 10:24:56 -0800 https://ehotinger.com/blog/2025-papers-and-books/ 2025 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 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard Paperback by Tom Felton The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman Life 3. https://ehotinger.com/blog/2024-papers-and-books/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 10:24:56 -0800 https://ehotinger.com/blog/2024-papers-and-books/ 2024 Below is a list of papers and books I’ve read in 2024. 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 Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death’s End 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 https://ehotinger.com/blog/2023-papers-and-books/ Mon, 02 Jan 2023 10:24:56 -0800 https://ehotinger.com/blog/2023-papers-and-books/ 2023 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 Papers No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accident in Software Engineering Written in 1986! https://ehotinger.com/blog/2022-papers-and-books/ Sun, 02 Jan 2022 10:24:56 -0800 https://ehotinger.com/blog/2022-papers-and-books/ 2022 Papers & Books As 2022 comes to a close, I wanted to reflect on some of the books I’ve had the opportunity to read this year. While I’ve enjoyed all of the books I’ve read, there are a few that stand out as particularly noteworthy. The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World was, hands down, the best book I read this year. This book delves into the power of our mindset and how it can shape our reality.