On: Ask HN: Most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software?

[adampk]

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...

I surprisingly really enjoyed it. Well written and it pulled back the veil on a lot of concepts that I thought were too complex for me to understand/enjoy.

[Arcsech → adampk]

I agree that this is a great book, but I think it fails the "impractical" test - DDIA is an immensely practical book that's basically required background reading if you work with distributed data systems.

[eatonphil → adampk]

I agree it's well written but for me that's way more on the side of required reading.

I'm thinking about books you don't _need_ to read but that are just really neat or advanced discussions.