Adam Hamrick

“This book is about one thing: complexity. Dealing with complexity is the most important challenge in software design. It is what makes systems hard to build and maintain, and it often makes them slow as well.”
― John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design

“But sportsbooks and racebooks make up only about 2 percent of gaming revenues at Las Vegas Strip casinos and 1 percent of overall revenues. They can be a bigger part of the business at off-Strip properties like Westgate and Circa, where sportsbooks help to draw in huge crowds on football weekends. Ultimately, however, sports betting is a medium-sized business. In 2022, the legal online sports-betting market in the U.S. generated about $7.5 billion in net betting revenue. That’s not nothing, and the market will grow as more states legalize it. But the Vegas Strip alone generates more gambling revenue than that. Heck, the frozen pizza market in the U.S. is worth about $20 billion annually.”
― Nate Silver, On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

“For example, consider the leap second on June 30, 2012, that caused many applications to hang simultaneously due to a bug in the Linux kernel”
― Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

“Unfortunately, the SQL standard’s definition of isolation levels is flawed—it is ambiguous, imprecise, and not as implementation-independent as a standard should be [28]. Even though several databases implement repeatable read, there are big differences in the guarantees they actually provide, despite being ostensibly standardized [23]. There has been a formal definition of repeatable read in the research literature [29, 30], but most implementations don’t satisfy that formal definition. And to top it off, IBM DB2 uses “repeatable read” to refer to serializability [8]. As a result, nobody really knows what repeatable read means.”
― Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems