This page will keep on getting organized, and re-organized
- 1948 - A Mathematical Theory of Communication - Claude Shannon
Meta
Report - 2025 - A Deep Peek into DeepSeek AI’s Talent and Implications for US Innovation
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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
Article - The Grug Brained Developer - A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained
⭐ Book - A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
- Book - Computer systems : a programmer's perspective by Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron
- Book - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Gerald Jay Sussman, Hal Abelson, and Julie Sussman
- Book - Grokking Simplicity: Taming Complex Software with Functional Thinking (Simplify software using Functional Programming principles)
Papers
- Why do we do astrophysics? (gist- the output is the person, not the research output)
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
- ⭐ Article - Choose boring technology
- Talk - 2014 - The mess we are in - Joe Armstrong
- Talk - 2011 - We really don't know how to compute - Gerald
- Video - 2020 - Developing Open Source Software is a Political Act
Concurrency
Architecture design
- Talk - 2025 - Architecting LARGE software projects - Eskil Steenberg, 2025
- Failure os always an option - Dylan Beetle, 2024
API design
- Talk - 2021 - Correct by Construction: APIs That Are Easy to Use and Hard to Misuse - Matt Godbolt [ C++ on Sea ]
Programming
- Paper - 2007 - What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
- Lecture - 2017 - How I program C - Eskil Steenberg
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
Datastores
Unclassified
- Lectures
- ⭐ 2018 - Dr. Michael Stonebraker - 10 fears about the future of dbms field
- Will help in thinking about the overall database meta.
- ⭐ 2018 - Dr. Michael Stonebraker - 10 fears about the future of dbms field
Papers
Articles
- What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like? - Marc Brooker
Books - [How Query Engines Work](https://www.howqueryengineswork.com/
General theory
- Paper - Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age
- Paper - Qd-tree: Learning Data Layouts for Big Data Analytics
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
MySQL
Presentation - 2012 - Vitess: Scaling MySQL at YouTube Using Go
Postgres
Talk - 2023 - A Detailed Understanding of MVCC and Autovacuum Internals in PostgreSQL 14 - Avinash Vallarapu
- Video - 99% of Developers Don't Get PostgreSQL
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
Networking
- Paper - Cornflakes: Zero-CopySerialization for Microsecond-Scale Networking (by Meta)
Web3
- Talk - 2018 - Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens)