Papers & Books

Blogs and hot takes are fun but the good stuff hides in primary sources. I like to read computer science papers and books cover to cover and write about what holds up in production and what doesn't.

You get the insights without wading through 40 pages of LaTeX. And when a famous book doesn't survive contact with real code, I'll tell you that too.

Papers and books

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Notes on A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks

In 1970 a paper came out that changed the world of business computing. It laid the ground work for modern databases.