Austin Software Reading Group
I run a twice-monthly, in-person book club for experienced software engineers. We read technical books that make us better at building robust software and discuss them in the context of our professional experience.
Reading group format
- Attendance is limited to folks with 5+ years of professional engineering experience.
- Books focus on concrete software topics rather than abstract software philosophy.
- Roughly 50 pages of reading a week, covering 2 to 4 chapters per meeting.
- Meetings are at 7:00PM the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month in central Austin.
- Discussion is group-led, so bring questions and any relevant past experience to share with the group.
Next book: Starting May 5th
Systems Performance by Brendan Gregg
We'll explore how operating systems and applications actually perform, covering CPU, memory, storage, and networking performance. This book provides a systematic approach to diagnosing performance issues along with the Linux tools to do it.
Interested in joining?
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Future reads
Not everything we read is for everyone, feel free to join for readings that interest you. Generally we'll read long format books, but occasionally we may read a set of white papers that focus on a similar theme. Here's some potential future readings:
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Database Internals
- Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action
- Paxos, Raft, PBFT, and Viewstamped Replication consensus algorithm white papers
Credit: Austin Software Reading Group was inspired by Phil Eaton's Software Internals Book Club.