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Hey folks, this is the 7th book in a series of readings I run over Google Groups. There are about 1800 people in the group and 300-800 join each reading. While we often read books on database internals this one seems pretty relevant to any developer working on systems that scale. Hope to have you in the group!

Also even if you don't want to join this particular reading, join the mailing list for the overall book club (on /bookclub.html) because we're going to read Designing Data Intensive Applications 2nd Edition together after it comes out this winter.

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Herlihy used to have video lectures up. He gave lectures to university students and he recorded it one year. I was lucky enough to watch them. We had this course for my computer science master. It was a good course thanks to this book :)

I had Herlihy for a few classes around 2000.

FWIW, he's a really great instructor and a super nice guy. Taking courses with him was a real treat.

I wasn't aware of this initiative, looks interesting and such a good idea in hindsight!

Might be a good help to keep the enthousiasm and energy to read a technical book in its entirety!

Interesting idea! This is an excellent book for learning about concurrency and parallelism. I'll join if I can find the time.

For reference, the second edition includes two additional chapters: "Optimism and manual memory management" and "Transactional programming". Did you intentionally skip those? :)

Sir, would you care to perhaps elaborate as to how this club business works. Potentially lots of folks interested. Thanks.

Do you have a specific question beyond what's on this page?

Yes. Does participating in this discussion impact the consequent editions of said books?

Perhaps I didn’t see this answered in the page referenced.

How did you get word to spread to begin with? Google groups?

Is everyone welcome or there’s certain prerequisite?

Thanks for ur time.

I don't understand your first two questions, I'm sorry, and the third question is answered on /bookclub.html (which is linked to from this page).

1. Do authors of the books know about this and participate alongside in order to improve the second edition based on what you guys commented.

4. Have I insulated you in any way by asking these questions? If so - please take excuse.

1. Authors have sometimes participated in the reading yes.

4. Not at all. :)

Can one participate without a Google account?

Hey, that sounds super cool. So I already put my stuff into the Google Forms. Will we get some invite, or how does this work?

What a cool idea! I'll join if my schedule allows. Thanks for doing this.

I am so surprised to hear about this book reading club, I don't know how it works but I will join and try to work through the book like everyone else.

Have you considered creating collaboratively written Anki decks for each chapter of each book as you read them?

I have perfected the personal level of effort I'm interested in/capable of putting into this club. But anyone who participated is welcome to do whatever they'd like! Or you can also start your own club.

Fair enough!

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