Category: Reviews

I have read my share of software development books and I have noticed that it is very rare to find a book which I want to read more than once. However, once in a while I find a book which teaches me new things every time when I read it. This blog post is a […] Read More about 10 Books Every Java Developer Should Read

SQL Performance explained by Markus Winand is a book which has a very bold tagline. This tagline is: Everything developers need to know about SQL performance The book has 192 pages and it covers all major SQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL server). To make matters a little bit more interesting, it concentrates on […] Read More about Book Review: SQL Performance Explained

Disclosure: I have written a book which was published by Packt Publishing, and I received a free review copy of this book. Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr by Hrishikesh Karambelkar is Packt Publishing's latest book about Big Data. I had high hopes on this one because its description promises that It is a […] Read More about Book Review: Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr