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Reading accountability

I've amassed a ton of books just in the last month and currently have no accountability system. I'll attempt to write about what I'm reading and how I'm putting things to use (whether it's a small assignment or something I am allowed to talk about from work).

One of my really big goals is to learn operating systems on somewhat of a university level. Here's where I've begun reading:

1. The Little Book of Semaphores
2. Beej's Guide to Unix IPC
3. Think OS: A Brief Introduction to Operation Systems
4. Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

Progress summary: I haven't started #1, but I read the intro for 2 and 4. Reading about files and file systems (ch 4) from #3.

I've also been trying to read more about distributed systems and working with big data.

1. Designing Data Intensive Applications
2. High Scalability blog
3. Miscellaneous engineering companies' blogs (e.g. Uber, Netflix)

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