Favorite books

A few technical books I keep coming back to.

• Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson

  I love how it connects low-level design choices to performance you can actually measure and reason about.

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann

  I keep coming back to this whenever I need to think clearly about data, scale, and distributed systems trade-offs.

• Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud Brendan Gregg

  I like its evidence-first mindset: measure what the system is doing, find the real bottleneck, and then optimize what matters.