I recently re-read the seminal book by Fred Brooks about software engineering, entitled "The Mythical Man-Month" or MM-M for brevity. Specifically, I read the paper version of the 20th anniversary, which was revised and reprinted in 1995, after the first edition of 1975. I did that on purpose, firstly because it is always a fantastic read, and secondly to understand how much of its contents is still valid today, exactly thirty years later since its last revision.
I recently finished reading a book published one year ago, written by Vittorio Bertola and Stefano Quintarelli. Unfortunately, it is only available in Italian, but its title perfectly encloses all the topics it covers: The shattered Internet: digital sovereignty, nationalisms, and big techs. Like me, Vittorio and Stefano are among the relatively few early users and participants of the primeval internet network of the 90s, even before the World Wide Web was conceived. This book is a disenchanted and realistic travel in the story of the Big Network and how it has become a broken dream today in many respects.
We recently returned from our traditional Dolomites holiday period, and while there
I eventually managed to read the first novel written by Salvatore
Sanfilippo aka antirez. Most of you probably know
Salvatore because he has been for a long time the leading developer of
Redis until he came out from the company
that now holds the ownership of the project, some years ago. He often compared
the creative work of a developer with that of a novelist and I was curious about
his first book.