This article is part of my notes from Chapter 9 of Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. You can read other chapter notes as well. Chapter 1: Reliability, Scalability, and Maintainability in Distributed Applications Chapter 2: Data Models and Query Languages Chapter 3: Data Storage and Retrieval...
Resilience comes with recovery, not endurance. You won't build resilience when you push for one more time if you're already exhausted. Your productivity will be depleted. Resilience comes from recharge and recovery. Professional athletes (like LeBron James) spend extra time on recovery, and the best ones consider it...
"Bet on things that won't change rather than predicting how things will change." — Jason Cohen Many experts fail to predict the future because many things change constantly. However, there are a few things that never change, and we know that they will always be there. For example, customers will always want low...
When I look back at the topics I covered in Mektup, I wrote about energy and time management, habits, multitasking, mentoring, remote work, process thinking, and many more. If I take one step back, a challenge becomes visible: I'm in the middle of all, trying to navigate, mediate and negotiate within some...
The questions that we need to answer after inspectional reading shows how much we need to get to know or understand the book. I say get to know because some books cannot be understood in the first reading and demand analytical reading. However, the majority of the books require only part of the inspectional...
We were having dinner with a friend, and in the middle of it, he said, “Candost, why are you so silent?” I was confused because we were in the middle of a conversation, and I was actively participating. When he clarified that he meant silent in life in general, I was yet surprised again. Because I always considered...
When we come across information, we mistakenly think we have learned something new. However, we just learned that that specific piece of information exists. We didn't learn what that information tells us. To understand the information, we have to actively think about it and apply it if it's applicable. When we read...
On January 23rd, 2023, I started an experiment and stopped all my social media usage. I didn’t read anything on Twitter, Mastodon, and LinkedIn. I occasionally checked my automated article sharing to see if they had been posted correctly, and during that checks, I read LinkedIn and Twitter messages from people I...
I started Mektup on Substack. Right after the first issue, I migrated to ConvertKit, where I hosted Mektup for 36 issues, and then moved it to Ghost, where I hosted my blog to merge everything into one place. Ghost was a great host providing enough flexibility for me to be creative on the website using templates. At...
Recently, I read Tuckman Was Wrong by Doc Norton. It's an old piece (yes, 2017 is old now). The article talks about how teams don't go from one stage to another in the order Tuckman defined: forming, storming, norming, and performing. The research that's been done over 50 years showed that teams instead jump from...
How Strongly I Recommend: 6/10 How Likely I Will Gift It To Somebody: 4/10 What is the book about? (summary) The book is about OKRs (Objective and Key Results) developed by legends at Intel. OKRs are effective business measurement systems to improve performance and job satisfaction, resulting in better company...
Reading books is an attractive concept that nobody teaches, but everybody somehow knows how to do it. I started reading books at the university around 2010. It's been more than ten years. During this whole time, I read whatever people or online algorithms and bookstores recommended. After getting into the habit and...
