The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club
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·August 2, 2025eatonphil
dardeaup
What a cool idea! I'll join if my schedule allows. Thanks for doing this.
raphinou
I wasn't aware of this initiative, looks interesting and such a good idea in hindsight!
Might be a good help to keep the enthousiasm and energy to read a technical book in its entirety!
sandeep1998
I am so surprised to hear about this book reading club, I don't know how it works but I will join and try to work through the book like everyone else.
tbbfjotllf
This seems interesting. Any specific reason why it's over emails instead of something like a forum or discord?
Jtsummers
Discord would be unpleasant for something like this with so many participants. It's a similar reason to skipping out on Hangouts, Zoom, etc. It forces synchronization, if you're not online during the discussion you're effectively barred from it. It can be very hard to catch up and very hard to respond to any particular thread of discussion. Discord is also, by design, essentially single-threaded. You can reply to specific comments but it's still presented in an interleaved format which makes tracking difficult when multiple threads of discussion are occurring at once.
If the discussion is light, it's a non-issue, but with 300-800 (per eatonphil's comment) it's likely that it will not be light.
tbbfjotllf
Your criticism of discord for this use case is valid. I didn't mean it has to be discord, it could be any platform as long as it allows having proper discussions without being a pain. I believe something like a flarum forum would be way better for this use case.
xeromal
Google groups is a forum but discord has horrible historical retention.
twolf910616
Hello! I just signed up. Is there a way I can view past book discussions?
evaXhill
This seems great! Would love to join however I can only seem to find the 2008 and 2012 pdf of The Art of Multiprocessor Programming for free, is there a link for the 2020 version?
xeromal
Thanks for this! Signed up. Do we get an invite to the group.
rudedogg
Signed up. Concurrency has been a bit of a blindspot for me outside the basics. It'll be nice to be able to really evaluate approaches and understand the internals.
fire2dev
Hi Phil, I want to join the group. The form asks "chapter discussion starter email", what do you mean by that?
eatonphil
It's explained on the page. :) Each week someone kicks off discussion. The form helps me find a volunteer for each chapter.
It's what makes it sustainable for me to keep running this group.
thedima
Sounds like an amazing idea. Looking forward to it!
Hey folks, this is the 7th book in a series of readings I run over Google Groups. There are about 1800 people in the group and 300-800 join each reading. While we often read books on database internals this one seems pretty relevant to any developer working on systems that scale. Hope to have you in the group!
Also even if you don't want to join this particular reading, join the mailing list for the overall book club (on /bookclub.html) because we're going to read Designing Data Intensive Applications 2nd Edition together after it comes out this winter.