HACKER Q&A
📣 Alifatisk

Which book are you currently reading?


I am currently reading a book called Propaganda by Edward Bernays, after this I have one last book left (Julia as a second language) before my list is empty.

So I am curious to what the audience here is reading, maybe it's something for me aswell?

  👤 fullymanaged Accepted Answer ✓
The DynamoDB Book

I had always dismissed DynamoDB as a simple key-value store. But this book (which is like a developer's guide) opened my eyes to how powerful DynamoDB can be if you use it in the right way for the right problems.

One of the many interesting things about it is that DynamoDB won't let you write slow queries. It constrains the kinds of queries you can write in such a way that each operation has an upper limit on latency. It simply does not allow the kinds of queries that could take a while (>25ms) to execute.

👤 jkmcf
I'm reading the very well written "Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East"[1].

I'm also reading the English translation of Johan Rundberg's "The Queen of Thieves (The Moonwind Mysteries Book 2)"[2] to my daughter who loves mysteries. It's much different from Book 1, but in a refreshing way. Most mystery series are kind of the same-but-different. Book 2 is darker in a more personal way for the protagonist.

1. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B8P5S3CV

2. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BN6NJ3SL

👤 onecommentman
In Pursuit of Spring by Edward Thomas, first published April 1914. Cycling through soggy Pre-war England on dodgy roads through charming towns while ruminating on nature poets and the like. Minor classic. And it’s Spring (in the Northern hemisphere).
👤 dieselgate
Just picked up “The Brothers Karamazov” last week
👤 bediger4000
Trilobite - eyewitness to evolution
👤 sickofparadox
No Colours Or Crest - Peter Kemp
👤 Tomte
Airport by James Kaplan.