Links collection
By Niraj Zade | 2025 Jun 15 | tags: resources 3 meta 3
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
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
Distrisys
Data structures
- CRDT introduction (Excellent)
Databases and storages
Human
Career
- No, you don't want to hire "the best engineers"
- Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued by patio11
- Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice by patio11
Management
- 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)
- Kelly criterion (2 wrongs)
- How to Give a Status Update To Executives - Jacob Kaplan-Moss (also has a lot of great articles in his blog)