Ask HN: What are the best tech books you read in 2021?

#1

Post by hintymad » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 12:09 AM UTC

Mine are Statistical Inference in Computer Age, and Transactional Information Systems. Curious what other books teach us powerful concepts and tools that carry us a long way

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#2

Post by harshdeep » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 3:11 AM UTC

Writing High Performance .Net Code by Ben Watson

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#3

Post by jgeurts » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 4:02 AM UTC

Designing Distributed Control Systems

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#4

Post by atlgator » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 4:14 AM UTC

harshdeep wrote: post #2

Writing High Performance .Net Code by Ben Watson

Worth the read?

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#5

Post by quanto » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 4:33 AM UTC

jgeurts wrote: post #3

Designing Distributed Control Systems

This seems like a fascinating book. What work/interest led you to reading such a book?

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#6

Post by slmjkdbtl » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 4:41 AM UTC

Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom

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#7

Post by srirangr » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 4:51 AM UTC

But how Do it Know? The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone - J. Clarke Scott.

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#8

Post by ra_men » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 5:46 AM UTC

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

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#9

Post by playing_colours » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 8:06 AM UTC

Software Architecture: the Hard Parts https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/software-architecture-t...

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#10

Post by hintymad » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 8:21 AM UTC

ra_men wrote: post #8

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

This is indeed a great book.