“Developing Apps with GPT-4 and ChatGPT” book review
Reading Time: 3 minutes It seems that ChatGPT is everywhere today. Sometimes I am afraid to even open up my fridge. However, I feel like there’s still way more hype and worries, than actual knowledge and reasonable use cases. “Developing apps with GPT-4 and ChatGPT” seriously changed my view of the whole LLM landscape. Disclaimer before we start For
“System Design Interview” book review
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have to start my review with a confession. I never actually had a system design interview. Never interviewed for FAANGs, and I don’t intend to. That’s why reading “System Design Interview” by Alex Xu books, was such a nice experience. Why? Keep on reading. Bro, do you even interview? Besides the fact, that I
“Mastering API architecture” book review
Reading Time: 2 minutes Some time ago a blog post titled “Being glue” by Tanya Reilly caused some ripples in the IT industry. For some reason I remembered it when reading “Mastering API Architecture” by Gough, Bryant and Auburn. “Glue work” is the work that is something, that senior devs and upper ranks should do all the time. It’s the work, that must be done, but
“Designing Data Intensive Applications” by Martin Kleppmann
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Designing Data Intensive Applications” book by Martin Kleppmann is seen as a kind of the bible today. Unless you’re squezzing every CPU cycle, fine-tuning embedded C compilers, or working on the next AAA hit – this book must have caught your attention before. To be perfectly honest – I have read that book before. However, it was