In Emma , by Jane Austen, Mr. Knightley tells Emma that he said to himself that even Emma would think that Harriet Smith and John Martin were a good match. Emma asserts that Martin is her societal inferior. Mr. Knightly questions how it could be a degradation to her illegitimacy and ignorance to be married to a respectable, gentleman farmer. Looking back on her interactions with Mr. Elton, Emma assures herself that his manners must have been unmarked, wavering, or doubtful fo

When the Darweesh family makes the trip down to Alamaxa by rail in The Daughters of Izdihar , by Hadeer Elsbai, Nehal’s father doesn’t look at her the entire ride. Knowing she is in Alamaxa when she steps of the rail, she wonders how women in the city wear such heavy attire when it is so damn hot all the time. When Nehal starts to peel the robe from her shoulders, her mother tugs it back on. Giorgina finds solitude nowhere to be found. There is something vaguely familiar abou

In Designing Data-Intensive Appilications , Martin Kleppman points out that you don’t need to operate at Google scale. Developers need to be aware of the constraints and trade-offs that occur in a distributed system. He goes into issues that arise when data is distributed. In Parts I and II , the discussion concerning all the major considerations that are involved in a distributed database assume there is only one database in an application. Applications commonly use a combin