diff --git a/content/reviews/books/88-days-to-any-goal.md b/content/reviews/books/88-days-to-any-goal.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bea9070 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/books/88-days-to-any-goal.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ ++++ +title = "88 Days to Any Goal - Rolland Roberts" +date = 2020-02-20 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["books", "reviews", "self-help", "rolland roberts"] ++++ + +[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40597273-the-90-day-promise): +No summary. + + + +{{ stars(stars=1) }} + +A whole "book" for something that is 5 (badly explained) bullet points. And a +lot of "THIS THING IS GREAT!" + +Want to lose weight? If you do the 88 day promise, you'll become weightless! + +Want to make more money? With the 88 day promise, you'll be richer than Jeff +Bezos! + +I did the 88 day promise for my campaign and almost got elected as king of the +world. + +Want to get impervious to bullets? All you need is the 88 day promise! + +A young Kal-El once decided to become stronger and, in 88 days, he was +Superman! + +Jokes apart, there is very little information about what the heck the 88 day +promise is. Just focusing on something for 88 day is enough? Can I focus on +becoming impervious to bullets? Any goal is valid? How to proceed, just set a +goal and that's it? + +No, it's not. There is a "first week, you take a time out". Suuuuure, I'll +stop working for a whole week to recover my energies and then I'll focus for 2 +weeks and take another week out for recharging. + +Honestly, I felt like reading some very long ad for snake oil. diff --git a/content/reviews/books/reactive-microservices-architecture.md b/content/reviews/books/reactive-microservices-architecture.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fcfe9a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/books/reactive-microservices-architecture.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ ++++ +title = "Reactive Microservices Architecture - Jonas Bonér" +date = 2020-02-20 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["books", "reviews", "it", "microservices", "jonas boner"] ++++ + +[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29630482-reactive-microservices-architecture): +Still chugging along with a monolithic enterprise system that’s difficult to +scale and maintain, and even harder to understand? In this concise report, +Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér explains why microservice-based architecture that +consists of small, independent services is far more flexible than the +traditional all-in-one systems that continue to dominate today’s enterprise +landscape. + + + +{{ stars(stars=1) }} + +Not actually a "book" per se, but more like a paper -- the author even +mentions it is a paper. + +Now, is it a good paper? Well... Thing is, easy-to-explain concepts, like +"Sagas", take a long discussion about them, but hard-to-explain, like the CAP +theorem, make just some short explanations. And this is bad; things that +really need more explanation do not and are just glossed over; things that you +can get right out of the bad, do not. Also, some parts put a lot of footnotes +and assume the reader will read the footnote, which is bad, 'cause if you let +it to read later, you won't totally grasp what it means. + +Also, there is one serious problem: Although it does a good discussion about +microservices, there is is very little explanation on what the reactive +microservice differs from normal microservices. + +It's more interesting for the footnotes, which have links to the real content, +than the content of the paper.