Pramod Biligiri

I recommend giving this book by Steve Yegge and Gene Kim a good skim even if not a thorough read.

I attended Day 1 of the YourStory TechSparks 2025 conference and had a great time there!

I spent some time reading about “Durable Execution Engines” (eg: Temporal) and explored possible connections to earlier concepts like database transactions, distributed transactions, and building RPC/Microservice based systems in a fault tolerant manner.

I decided to re-read this impactful paper about data lakehouse from 2021 which talks about the “lakehouse” architecture within data warehousing.

The book Java Generics and Collections (O’Reilly 2007) by Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler provides a grand tour of generics as available within Java.

This was a nice and understandable introduction to ChatGPT, by the noted scientist Stephen Wolfram who is also the creator of Mathematica software.

I’ve been a casual user of annotations in code for many years but had never bothered to understand how exactly they work, or why they even exist.

I heard about a recent conference called “Modern Data Stack 2021” which seemed interesting.

This is actually two books masquerading as one.

After attending a conference called The Makers Summit a couple of weeks back where I saw two founders talk about “10x” products, I figured there must be experts who have looked for patterns in how they emerge and written about them?