reading3 entries
On the shelf.
A running list of books and papers I keep coming back to — distributed systems, ML, and the craft of writing software that lasts.
Currently reading 1
- Designing Data-Intensive ApplicationsMartin Kleppmann
The one I re-read. Replication, consistency, and the honest trade-offs behind every 'just use X' answer.
Finished 2
- Site Reliability EngineeringGoogle
Where my instinct to instrument everything comes from — SLOs over vibes.
- The GRPO / DPO papersDeepSeek · Rafailov et al.
Re-read while training the SlotKeeper agent. Preference optimization without a reward model is quietly a big deal.