It is hard to avoid Docker. Hacker News has been abuzz with it for years, The Register ran an exhaustive feature about it a couple of months ago; indeed it seems to have taken over the DevOps world.

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


The “Phoenix Project..” is a parable…

Poseidon’s Wake by Alastair Reynolds

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Poseidon’s Wake is the third volume in the Poseidon’s Children series by Alastair Reynolds. The events of this book are set a few centuries in the future from the second book — On The…

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I read “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet” (TLW) in one sitting on a long flight. At…

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Rise of the Robots (RoR) was voted as the Financial Time’s Business Book of the Year* for 2015.

I found the book to be a disappointment. RoR…

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Station Eleven is a book that cannot be categorised easily. Is it science fiction? Is is literary fiction? Is it post-apocalyptic fiction? It is all of the above, and yet it does…

Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Review based on a copy received from NetGalley and Tachyon Publications

Alastair Reynold’s Slow Bullets is a novella exploring issues of identity, memory and revenge. There are echoes of Iain…

The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


The Water Knife is a lives up to its title: it’s a sharp, mean and violent story set in a grim near future US on the verge of civil war over water. The story unfolds in Phoenix, Arizona as…

The Martian by Andy Weir

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I have a man crush on Mark Watney. There, I said it. If you think this makes my review biased, move on sir, move on.

Still here? Good. Let me tell you about my mate Mark. He is the nerd’s nerd. Not content with just…

My target this year was to read 50 books. I didn’t quite make it and finished with 23 books completed. I have a number of books still on “Currently Reading” shelf on GoodReads as well as a few paper backs lying around the flat. Still, I read some wonderful books this year, and a couple of disappointing…