Papers, books, talks etc
By Niraj Zade | 2025 Jun 02 | tags: resources 2
This page will keep on getting organized, and re-organized
- 1948 - A Mathematical Theory of Communication - Claude Shannon
Meta
General
- ⭐ Talk - 2012 - Inventing on Principle - Bret Victor
- ⭐ Interview - 2018 - Money as an Instrument of Change - Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO Social Capital
- ⭐ Essay - 1989 - Worse is better
Software engineering
- Paper - 1985 - Programming as theory building - Peter Naur
Paper - 1986 - No Silver Bullet —Essence and Accident in Software Engineering - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
General
- ⭐ Talk - 2011 - Simple made easy - Rich Hickey
- ⭐ Talk - 2013 - Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey
- ⭐ Talk - 2016 - The Silver Bullet Syndrome by Hadi Hariri
- Video - 2020 - Developing Open Source Software is a Political Act
API design
- Talk - 2021 - Correct by Construction: APIs That Are Easy to Use and Hard to Misuse - Matt Godbolt [ C++ on Sea ]
Programming
- Lecture - 2017 - How I program C - Eskil Steenberg
Datastores
Mixed
- Lecture - 2018 - Dr. Michael Stonebraker - 10 fears about the future of dbms field
- Paper - 2020 - Millions of Tiny Databases - usenix
Bigtable
- Paper - 2006 - Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
DynamoDb
- Paper - 2007 - Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store
- Paper -2022 - Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service - Usenix
Postgres
- Talk - 2023 - A Detailed Understanding of MVCC and Autovacuum Internals in PostgreSQL 14 - Avinash Vallarapu
Redshift
- Paper - 2024 - Intelligent Scaling in Amazon Redshift
ScaleDB
Snowflake
Automatic clustering at Snowflake
- Covers the greatest greatest magic of snowflake (In my opinion)
Paper - Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing - VLDB
Spanner
Web3
- Talk - 2018 - Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens)
ML, AI
- Article - 2020 - GPT3 and the scaling hypothesis - Gwern
- Article - 2019 - Complexity is not bar to AI - Gwern
- Article - 2022 - The Scaling Hypothesis