I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Open Source Summit Europe 2025 in Amsterdam last week. The event was hosted by the Linux Foundation and covered all sorts of topics ranging from cloud and containerization to embedded systems and AI (I think it is mandatory to mention AI at least five times in every article now?). The next couple of posts will be my attempt at summarizing the experience and some of the stuff I learned. ...

Zeit, sich aus dem Staub zu machen - Andrea Petković Zwischen Ruhm und Ehre liegt die Nacht - Andrea Petković Alone Together, Sailing solo to Hawaii and beyond - Christian Williams Endless Highway - David Carradine The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering - Frederick P.Brooks Jr. The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein Category Theory for Programmers - Bartosz Milewski Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa Watership Down - Richard Adams Noble House - James Clavell Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture - David Kushner City and Its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - Robert M. Pirsig Shōgun - James Clavell Sun and Steel - Yukio Mishima Trust - Hernan Diaz The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Frontiers of AI - Fei-Fei Li Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir When the Heavens Went on Sale: The True Story of the Space Race to Conquer the Stars - Ashlee Vance Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland - Haruki Murakami