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My reviews of books from 2011 - 2016. Every post belongs to exactly one category and can have multiple #tags .

Book Reviews

Sep 07, 2016 work-related

A Good Novel About IT and DevOps

In the novel “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win”, the protagonist Bill is promoted against his will and must immediately take over, be...

#agile #project-management #devops #review
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Jul 28, 2016 work-related

Planning is an Agile Process

In “Agile Estimating and Planning”, Mike Cohn excellently explains the problems associated with project planning and effort estimation and presents “agile estimating and planning” as a solution.

#agile #project-management #review
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Jun 01, 2016 games

'Lag' and how to minimize it

Every multiplayer gamer knows it: “Lag”. When you see an opponent too late or you are certain you hit them a hundred percent, but the game decides otherwise: the culprit...

#review #c++
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Apr 13, 2016 work-related

Good Presentations Make You Look Good

Neal Ford and Nathaniel Schutta have created a video training course for their 2012 book “Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations”.

#review #agile
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Aug 07, 2015 work-related

How Business Models Are Fun - A Reading Experience

“Business Model Generation” is an excellent introduction to the complex topic of “business models.” The book covers business models, their creation, and further adaptation using the “Business Model Canvas.”

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Jul 06, 2015 big-data

Good Hands-on Introduction to Apache Spark

Anyone who wants to learn the basics of Spark is well-advised to read the book “Learning Spark”. I particularly liked that the book is very practice-oriented and that you can...

#review #distributed #object-functional
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Jun 17, 2015 software-engineering

A very good introduction to Scala

Scala is an important milestone in the fusion of functional and object-oriented programming. This fusion is not yet complete, but rather a “discovery process” that will continue for a few...

#scala #review #jvm #object-functional
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