This week Mike and Erik dig into their bookshelves to find and discuss their favorite technical books. As per usual, Mike references a bunch of stuff Erik has never heard of but one new thing this week is that Erik tries hard not to piss off Radiohead fans.

Books Mentioned

• Unix Network Programming, W. Richard Stevens
• Software Architecture in Practice, Bass, Clements, Kazman
• Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics, Foley and Van Dam
• The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
• Hacker’s Delight by Henry Warren
• Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties
• A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
• Mastering Regular Expressions
• Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
• Natural Language Processing with Python
• An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus by Greg Michaelson
• Kubernetes Up and Running by Kelsey Hightower, Brendan Burns, and Joe Beda
• Building Microservices by Sam Newman
• Enterprise Integration Patterns by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• The SRE Book by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy
• Mazes for Programmers by Jamis Buck
• Building an Interpreter in Go, by Thorsten Ball

For music this week Erik's into The Smile's Wall of Eyes,  while Mike likes Compassion by Vijay Iyer, Linda May Hah Oh, Tyshawn Sorey

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