travisjeffery

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Building useful tools with software and sharing what I learn.

Worked at Basecamp, Segment, Confluent.

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Comment · 5 years ago

I'm not sure, I haven't heard of that happening before. I've asked my editor if she knows what's up. You can email me at tj at my HN username dot com if you want to follow up.

Comment · 5 years ago

Awesome! Hope you enjoy reading the book and thanks for buying it.

Comment · 5 years ago

Hey, I'm the author of Jocko. I've been working at Confluent the past four years.

I just finished writing a book that shows how to build similar distributed services from scratch, it walks though building a simple distributed commit log with built-in consensus and service discovery from nothing to deployment: https://pragprog.com/titles/tjgo/distributed-services-with-g...

Comment · 5 years ago

People that are interested in this blog post will interested in a book I wrote: Distributed Services with Go (https://pragprog.com/titles/tjgo/distributed-services-with-g...). The book walks the reader through building a distributed event service from scratch that uses Serf as a library for its service discovery.

Comment · 6 years ago

Magit is working on switching to libgit2 https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2959 to fix this.

Comment · 6 years ago

Yeah I'm discussing with my editor now about when to put out the beta it'll be out either after we finish editing the chapter I just finished writing or the next one. So pretty soon. I hope to have the whole book finished by July but that's a bit more TBD up to how soon I finish writing the last few chapters.

Comment · 6 years ago

Whoops here's the proper link: https://travisjeffery.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1e3ff7...

Comment · 6 years ago

Comment · 6 years ago

I'm currently writing a book for PragProg called Building Distributed Services with Go (though it mostly applies to other languages too) that's walks you through building a distributed database from scratch. You can sign up on this mailing list to know when it's available: https://travisjeffery.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1e3ff7....

Comment · 7 years ago

I'm not doing it for the money. Writing a worthwhile book is about the least efficient way to make money.

Comment · 7 years ago

Yeah---each chapter begins with background on the chapter's topic, some theory, covers how and where you'd use what's we're talking about in the chapter and then we use it to build a part of the project we're building throughout the book. For example, in the consensus chapter we talk about what problems it solves and how you can use it in your projects,and then we implement Raft in the service for leader election and replication.

Comment · 7 years ago

Awesome. Hopefully within a month or two.

Comment · 7 years ago

Not sure, haven't gotten to that yet. Just from looking at the prices of other PragProg books somewhere around $21.95-24.95.

Comment · 7 years ago

I'm currently writing a book for PragProg called Building Distributed Services with Go (though it mostly applies to other languages too) that's walks you through building a distributed database from scratch. You can sign up on this mailing list to know when it's available: https://travisjeffery.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1e3ff7...

Comment · 7 years ago

I think the keyword is "typical." Which is probably true that the math is pretty basic at most universities and in most programs.

But you can go to schools like the University of Toronto, which is a strong math school and has very challenging programs like ASSPE1165 (https://fas.calendar.utoronto.ca/mathematics-specialist-scie...)