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Ian Brown

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Joined 2 years ago

XML apologist. Erlang enthusiast. Currently JVMs & Performance stuff at Netflix. Previously JVMs & performative stuff at Twitter. He/him.

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Programming Heterogeneous Hardware via Managed Runtime Systems (Springer) No rating

Character Limit (2024, Penguin Publishing Group) No rating

Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the …

A pretty good account, though it focuses on much of the high-level C-suite shenanigans as opposed to Zöe Schaffer’s excellent, employee-focused "Hardcore Engineering". Worth a read for sure.

Silverview (Paperback, 2022, Penguin Books) 5 stars

A Perfect End

5 stars

Magnus Pym and Edward Avon and Rick blend together with a funeral at the end of all of it. Sprinkle a little Nietzsche on top and you have a wonderful wrap up of the John le Carré extended universe. It all ends, of course, with a bureaucratic whimper. Anyway, it is Cornwall at his best.