Links collection

An ever evolving list of links. This page will keep getting cleaned, organized, appended, disorganized.

List of Blogs

• 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.
• 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

Podcasts

• Signals and threads - Jane street podcast

Computers

AI

Infra

• Imbue - From bare metal to a 70B model: infrastructure set-up and scripts
• Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 nodes - OpenAI

Python stuff

• Building WSGI server etc from scratch - mleue.com/
• pythonspeed.com - in depth python articles
• mathspp.com - deeper python
• Cosmic python - book for software architecture when using python

Distrisys

• Murat Buffalo - Foundational distributes systems papers
• A distributed systems reliability glossary by Antithesis

Data structures

• CRDT introduction (Excellent)

Databases and storages

• Iceberg, The Right Idea - The Wrong Spec - Part 1 of 2: History

Human

Career

• No, you don't want to hire "the best engineers"
  • hn discussion
• Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued by patio11
• Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice by patio11

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)