Arjun Srivastava's Library

Scala Cookbook: Recipes for Object-Oriented and Functional Programming
Alvin Alexander
Save time and trouble when using Scala to build object-oriented, functional, and concurrent applications. With more than 250 ready-to-use recipes and 700 code examples, this comprehensive cookbook covers the most common problems you’ll encounter whe...

Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems
Ross J. Anderson
The world has changed radically since the first edition of this book was published in 2001. Spammers, virus writers, phishermen, money launderers, and spies now trade busily with each other in a lively online criminal economy and as they specialize,...

Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences
Stephen P. Anderson
What happens when you’ve built a great website or app, but no one seems to care? How do you get people to stick around long enough to see how your service might be of value? In Seductive Interaction Design, speaker and author Stephen P. Anderson tak...

Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned From Programming Over Time
Titus Winters and Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright
Today, software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but also how to develop proper engineering practices to make their codebase sustainable and healthy. This book emphasizes this difference between programming and software eng...

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...

Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
Tim Hwang
From FSGO x Logic : a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundation In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital adver...

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...

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...