Newsletter — Week 8 Highlights (2026)
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Top 3 books this week (Feb 16–22, 2026)
The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer
— Recommended in a thread about influential figures in computing, HN commenters highlighted Seymour Cray as a pivotal figure, pointing to this book for its detailed account of his contributions.Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
— Recommended by HN commenters in a thread about service architecture, it emphasized the challenge of evolving a shared database schema as a public interface between services.Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith
— Recommended as a resource in discussions about database schema evolution, HN commenters highlighted ...public interface challenges when services share a database, linking it to the concepts in Monolith to Microservices.
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