The first book is about network hardware, like router, switcher. As a coder, I usually use servers on cloud, therefore haven’t see the real high performance routers (I have sought bare server, 1Gb switcher). This book open my eyes.
The second book is about how to build Datacenter. It’s really a work for architecture, not IT guys.
About two years ago, I worked with Mysql team in my company as a kernel developer. We have used PCIE-card of NAND and flashcache as our solution for Mysql to process hight throughput pressure. But util this year, I have read over the architecture of InnoDB Engine which is the most powerful and effective engine in Mysql. Actually, it’s not so difficult to have a overview of the InnoDB Engine in a book. But, it is still very hard to understand the code of it 🙂
I haven’t go to cinema to watch “The Martian” because I have read it in my Kindle on my commute everyday. It is really a sci-fi story for Geeks who like do research on Computer,Chemistry,Physics,etc. The only question I want to ask the author is:” How could you invent so much troubles on Mars to torture Mark Watney?”