Book Overflow

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss Ken Thompson's essay Reflections on Trusting Trust and the short story Coding Machines by Lawrence Kesteloot!

Big thanks to user 0b00101010 from the Book Overflow Discord for the recommendation! Join it here: https://discord.gg/ZwS2fqW7ZZ

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Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

Coding Machines by Lawrence Kesteloot
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/

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00:00 Intro
02:55 About the Authors and Essays
06:14 Initial Thoughts
11:03 The Trusting Trust Attack
22:39 Coding Machines
32:05 AI Trust and Dark Patterns
44:01 AI-Generated Code and the Future
54:52 Stuxnet and Unintended Consequences
1:02:43 Final Thoughts

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan finish discussing Designing Data-Intensive Application by Martin Kleppman!

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Designing Data-Intensive Application by Martin Kleppman
https://amzn.to/3LNwzSK

00:00 Intro
03:05 About the Book and Author
05:15 Initial Thoughts on DDIA Part 4
11:44 Stream Processing and Message Brokers
20:00 Kafka, Event Sourcing, and Append-Only Logs
43:42 Fault Tolerance in Streaming Systems
49:05 The Future of Data Systems
57:43 Privacy, Surveillance, and Ethics
1:11:42 Final Thoughts

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan continue discussing Designing Data-Intensive Application by Martin Kleppman!

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Designing Data-Intensive Application by Martin Kleppman
https://amzn.to/3LNwzSK

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00:00 Intro
05:44 About the Book and Author
07:23 Initial Thoughts on DDIA Part 3
14:03 The Trouble with Distributed Systems
31:47 Byzantine Fault Tolerance
37:35 Consistency and Consensus
53:03 Batch Processing and the Unix Philosophy
1:10:55 Hot Takes and Book Recommendations
1:15:07 Final Thoughts

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Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io

In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan are joined by Austen McDonald, author of Mastering Behavioral Interviews!

Original book discussion: https://youtu.be/ZA_rG3O46Bw

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Mastering Behavioral Interviews by Austen McDonald
https://amzn.to/4k3jnpF (Paid Link)

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Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan continue discussing Designing Data-Intensive Application by Martin Kleppman!

Join the official Book Overflow Discord!

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Carter
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Nathan
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-- Books Mentioned in this Episode --
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Designing Data-Intensive Application by Martin Kleppman!
https://amzn.to/3LNwzSK
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00:00 Intro
01:53 About the Book and Author
03:12 Initial Thoughts on DDIA Chapters 5-7
19:10 Chapter 5: Replication
43:00 Chapter 6: Partitioning
52:39 Chapter 7: Transactions
1:05:12 Hot Takes
1:11:59 Final Thoughts

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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325
X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod
Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan
Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com

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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!

The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io