Spark: The Definitive Guide: Big Data Processing Made Simple Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia
Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by the creators of the open-source cluster-computing framework. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Mate...
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track Will Larson
At most technology companies, you'll reach Senior Software Engineer, the career level for software engineers, in five to eight years. At that career level, you'll no longer be required to work towards the next pro? motion, and being promoted beyond i...
Star Maker Olaf Stapledon
This bold exploration of the cosmos ventures into intelligent star clusters and mingles among alien races for a memorable vision of infinity. Cited as a key influence by science-fiction masters such as Doris Lessing, this classic has left its mark n...
Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup Rob Walling
Start Small, Stay Small is a step-by-step guide to launching a self-funded startup. If you're a desktop, mobile or web developer, this book is your blueprint to getting your startup off the ground with no outside investment.This book intentionally a...
Straight and Crooked Thinking Robert H. Thouless
A new edition of a much loved guide to how to think and reason your way logically through difficult and challenging arguments
This new edition of a timeless classic demonstrates how the use of clear, rational thinking and logic can win any argument...
Strangers to Ourselves Timothy D. Wilson
"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel o...
Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert
A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it.
Most of us spend our l...
Superforecasting Philip E. Tetlock
From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launch...
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Nick Bostrom
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If m...
Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty Nancy Etcoff
A provocative and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, skewering the myth that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior.
In Survival of the Prettiest , Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and ...
Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud Brendan Gregg
The Complete Guide to Optimizing Systems Performance Written by the winner of the 2013 LISA Award for Outstanding Achievement in System Administration Large-scale enterprise, cloud, and virtualized computing systems have introduced serious performan...
