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People

Database Doctor - Thomas Kejser
- I like this guy. Dude is neuro-atypical (autistic, but in a good way) with a focus on databases. So you know his stuff is going to be good.
philippdubach.com - Quantitative Finance, AI & Technology
https://justinjaffray.com/posts/ Justin Jaffray - datadog guy
ben-evans.com - Benedict Evans
wippler.dev/posts/
meltingasphalt.com/archive/ by Kevin Simler -
leopard.in.ua/ - Alexey Vasiliev (Postgres stuff)
matthewstrom.com/writing - Matthew Ström - head of design stripe
ludic.mataroa.blog/ - Australian guy writing some of the best ranty posts I've read on the internet
sirupsen.com/ - Simon Horup Eskildsen
ajaydwivedi.com/ - sql server guy
eli.thegreenplace.net/archives/all - has covered almost all topics in cs. Recommended by Phil Eaton.
one2n's stories - https://playbook.one2n.in/pragmatic-software-engineering-stories
startdataengineering.com/post/ - around 1 post per month on data engineering
- practical, actionable posts. not just theoritical.
manthanguptaa.in/manthan gupta - (3 articles on replication in distrisys articles)
copyninja.in/ - has a nice blog
jack-vanlightly.com/ Jack Vanlightly - Works on kafka
justinjaffray.com/posts/ - Justin Jaffray - a database guy
two-wrongs.com/A quant tech guy's blog. EXCELLENT articles.
shekhargulati.com - Shekhar gulati - writes summaries of papers, blog posts etc
rohanverma.net/archives/ - rohan verma (zerodha)
starship-knowledge.com/- EXPERT KNOWLEDGE AT A GLANCE -
notes.eatonphil.com/ - tigerbeetle guy
vitalik.eth.limo/ - vitalik buterin (Ethereum)
mitchellh.com/writing- mitchell hashimoto (hashicorp)
davidgomes.com/ - David Gnomes - Director of Engineering at SingleStore
brooker.co.za/blog/ - Mark Brooker, AWS
nintil - José Luis Ricón
Alexey Guzey
Gwern Branwen

Company engineering blogs

Modal - AI infra company
Snowflake Engineering blog
Netflix Tech Blog
OpenAI

Podcasts

Notable blog posts

Infra

Software engineering

Modal: Linear Programming for Fun and Profit - constraint-solver class of problems
We really don't know how to compute - Gerald
Causality blog - the concurrency problem (series of articles)
Papers
- 1948 - A Mathematical Theory of Communication - Claude Shannon
  - The bedrock of digital. Very readable.
  - Wikipedia
  - pdf
- Paper - 1985 - Programming as theory building - Peter Naur
- Paper - 1986 - No Silver Bullet —Essence and Accident in Software Engineering - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
- Paper - 2007 - What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
Talks
- ⭐ Talk - 2011 - Simple made easy - Rich Hickey
- ⭐ Talk - 2013 - Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey
- ⭐ Talk - 2016 - The Silver Bullet Syndrome by Hadi Hariri
- Talk - 2014 - The mess we are in - Joe Armstrong
- Talk - 2011 - We really don't know how to compute - Gerald
- 2017 - How I program C - Eskil Steenberg
Books
- ⭐ A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
- Computer systems : a programmer's perspective by Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Gerald Jay Sussman, Hal Abelson, and Julie Sussman
- Grokking Simplicity: Taming Complex Software with Functional Thinking (Simplify software using Functional Programming principles)
articles
- Article - There is no memory safety without thread safety
Lecture - 2017 - How I program C - Eskil Steenberg

Architecture

Talks
- 2025 - Architecting LARGE software projects - Eskil Steenberg
- 2024 - Failure is always an option - Dylan Beetle

API design

Talk - 2021 - Correct by Construction: APIs That Are Easy to Use and Hard to Misuse - Matt Godbolt [ C++ on Sea ]

Human

Talks/videos
- Video - 2020 - Developing Open Source Software is a Political Act
- ⭐ Talk - 2012 - Inventing on Principle - Bret Victor
- ⭐ Interview - 2018 - Money as an Instrument of Change - Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO Social Capital
Blog posts
- 🌟How to drop out
- ⭐ Worse is better (Essay, 1989)
- ⭐Buried Talents - How elites betray their own potential by Edan Kroolewicz
- The Golden Handcuffs: Why Our Brightest Minds Retreat into “Pragmatic Emptiness” by Edan Kroolewicz
Papers
- Why do we do astrophysics? (gist- the output is the person, not the research output)

Career

Management

Awesome engineering management - Github
Modern Agile is Stupid: on why all great ideas are killed by simple-minded idiots, why Jira kills software, and how to be a good manager
Statistical Process Control: A Practitioner’s Guide (2wrongs) (was as two-wrongs.com, now redirecting to entropicthoughts.com)
Kelly criterion (2 wrongs) (was as two-wrongs.com, now redirecting to entropicthoughts.com)
⭐How to Give a Status Update To Executives - Jacob Kaplan-Moss (also has a lot of great articles in his blog)

Math

⭐Number theory explained from first principles by Kaspar Etter

Things

AI (not theory)

Paper - 2018 - Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications
Article - 2020 - GPT3 and the scaling hypothesis - Gwern
Article - 2019 - Complexity is not bar to AI - Gwern
Article - 2022 - The Scaling Hypothesis

Data platforms

2025 - Building a Resilient Data Platform with Write-Ahead Log at Netflix

Data structures

CRDT introduction (Excellent)
B+Tree index structures in InnoDB by the living MySQL legend Jeremy Cole

Distributed systems

Murat Buffalo - Foundational distributed systems papers
A distributed systems reliability glossary by Antithesis and Aphyr (Jespen)

Aws

tools
- AWS EC2 single core benchmarks by runs-on.com
- Instances by Vantage - pricing of EC2 instances, RDS etc

Linux

Entire Linux Network stack diagram

Networking

Papers
- Cornflakes: Zero-CopySerialization for Microsecond-Scale Networking (by Meta)

Security

Talk - 2018 - Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? - James Mickens - USENIX Security

Web 3

Talks
- 2018 - Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens)

Python

Articles
- A Conceptual Overview of asyncio
Books
- Cosmic python - book for software architecture when using python
Websites
- pythonspeed.com - in depth python articles
- mathspp.com - deeper python