Author: Wang Jianguo / Wu Bin Publication year: 2016-11-1 ISBN: 9787508668024 Notes: The book’s main point is that in the internet era, working from home and collaborating remotely is a better fit. From there it goes on to discuss how business owners and workers can harness this way of working, and the author offers some of his own thoughts.

Author: [UK] Sam Newman Publication year: 2016-5 ISBN: 9787115420268 Notes: It mainly answers a series of questions about microservices. What microservices are, what characteristics they have, how systems evolve, how to divide services, and integration, deployment, and testing strategies. It gives a fairly comprehensive introduction to microservices, and many of its views resonate with me.

Author: Fan Bing Subtitle: A Secret Playbook for User and Revenue Growth in Startups Publication year: 2015-7 ISBN: 9787121263606 Notes: This is a fairly marketing-oriented book aimed at ToC internet products. Through all kinds of real cases, it shows you the playbook of internet products: how to create a product, acquire users, spark activity, improve retention, increase revenue, and spread virally.

Author: Edward Frenkel (USA) Original title: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality Publication year: 2016-3 ISBN: 9787508658070 Notes: I finished this book on the high-speed train during a round trip. It is a fairly light, autobiographical kind of mathematics book. It mainly follows the timeline of the author’s schooling, and tells the story of how a boy interested in physics, step by step and through unremitting effort, became a world-class mathematician.

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