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The technology is not that relevant but there's still a lot to learn in how he approaches problems. In that respect, It's much more timeless than a typical technology focused book.

I've learned a lot about what to optimize how to go about it and when to optimize from reading his book and I use a lot of this insight even now when working on performance optimization for web applications.

Together with SICP, it's one of the books that influenced me the most.



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