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2022 – My Year in Books 📚

It’s that time of year when I am excited to share the books I have read! It’s one of the self-created traditions that I look forward to every year.

This year in 2022, I’ve read some great books and watched a few amazing documentaries — some are new releases, some older, but each one of them truly made me a better person this year.

I’ve been posting my “My Year in Books” for last couple of years. I believe that sharing books is an easy way to connect with like minded folks. ❤️

In no particular order- let’s go!

2021 – My Year in Books 📚

This year was anything but normal. In the beginning, I had no idea how the next 12 months would play out the way that they did, and books are one of the things that helped me get through this year.

I spent a lot less time driving to work, eating lunch in the office, and doing groceries. And I used this time to read (and watch some amazing documentaries) that gave me a better perspective of our world.

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems – Book Review

Essential Read for anyone managing highly available distributed systems at scale

First off – It’s worth let you know that Google lets you read this “entire” book online for free on their website. Yes you read it right, you don’t need to buy the book, just click on below link – https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/toc/index.html and start reading!

“Hit Refresh” Book Review – Transforming Microsoft with a growth mindset 📚

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. – George R.R. Martin”

Yes, I admit that I sort of dropped the ball on reading. What was more surprising is that all this while I almost did nothing to correct it. Fortunately sanity prevailed and my wife who herself is a voracious reader and a writer (though her first masterpiece is still in making) help me remind about all the good things I am missing by not reading. So I picked up books again!

This blog is share reviews of whatever little I’ve read and learn from your thoughts.

2014 – My Year in Books 📚

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island” – Walt Disney

2014 has been quite a year for me both personally and professionally. I’ve never been much of book reader as they’ve always reminded me of my school days when reading a book was like compromising on all other good things (some of my schoolmates can resonate to that). However things gradually changed (thanks to wife), and I started to read and ended up having an year far more richer than than one I started with.
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Hello world….once again

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This is continuation to my SQL Server blog on MSDN. With this blog post, I intend to help fellow database engineers community using PostgreSQL / SQL Server as a Database Platform, with occasional other stuff thrown in related to other RDBMS platforms and their respective integration issues. Thanks to my wife who’d been pestering me to blog for a year or so.

I’ve spent more than a decade working on various different RDBMS platforms including PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL. My current focus area is PostgreSQL and it’s implementation in a large enterprise landscape overcoming challenges of scale, manageability and automation.

Thanks for your time reading and I hope all my effort will help (or at least entertain) you at many levels. I would really appreciate if you could let me know what you think about it, good or bad. I always appreciate feedback 🙂

Sincere Thanks!

Varun