Resources

Over time, I have compiled and distilled a list of lists of useful resources.

If you have any feedback please don’t hesitate to send it my way.

If you want to buy me a gift, a book from my technical book wishlist would be awesome! There is also my non-technical book wishlist.

Database Systems and Database Reliability Engineering

• High Performance MySQL, by Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev & Vadim Tkachenko.
• Introduction to Databases, by Stanford.
• CMU 15-721 Advanced Database Systems, by Carnegie Mellon University.

Linux Internals and Systems Programming

• Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Edition, by Daniel P. Bovet, and Marco Cesati.
• Advanced Linux Programming, by Mark Mitchell.
• Linux Kernel Development, by Robert Love.
• The Origins of Linux by Linus Torvalds at the Computer History Museum.
• Linux Performance Tools by Brendan Gregg at Velocity.
• Give me 15 minutes & I’ll change your view of GDB by Greg Law at CppCon 2015.
• An Introduction to Linux IPC Facilities by Michael Kerrisk at Linux Conference Australia 2013.
• Beginners Guide to Containers Technology and how it actually works, by James Bottomley.
• CS162: Operating Systems, by Berkley.
• Namespaces in Operation (LWN Series)
• Control Groups (LWN Series)

Distributed Systems

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by Martin Kleppmann.
• Cloud Computing Concepts Part 1, and Part 2, part of the Cloud Computing Scpecialization, on Coursera, Illinois. * Probably should be called Introduction to Distributed Programming
• 6.824: Distributed Systems, by MIT.
• Distributed Systems Lecture Series, by Martin Kleppmann.
• CS436: Distributed Computer Systems, by University of Waterloo.
• The TLA+ Video Course, by Leslie Lamport.
• Distributed Systems Reading Group

Programming

• Data Structures and Algorithms in Python, by Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, and Michael H. Goldwasser.
• The Go Programming Language, by Alan A. A. Donovan, and Brian Kernighan.
• CS107: Programming Paradigms, by Stanford Center for Professional Development.
• 6.00.1x: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python, by MIT, on edx.org.
• Basics of Software Architecture & Design Patterns in Java [Not free], By Holczer Balazs, on Udemy.
• 6.004: Computation Structures, by Chris Terman from MIT.
• Computer Architecture, by Carnegie Mellon.
• Python Path [Not free], from PluralSight.
• You Look at it till a Solution Occurs by Brandon Rhodes at PyCon 2017.
• Python Epiphanies by Stuart Williams.
• Modern Dictionaries by Raymond Hettinger.
• Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python by Raymond Hettinger at Next Day Video.
• Go development with vim-go by Fatih Arslan at DigitalOcean NYC Meetup.

Production Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering

• Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, by Brendann Gregg.
• Site Reliability Engineering, edited by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Richard Murphy.
• 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems, from MIT.
• Notes from Production Engineering by Pedro Canahuati at SREcon15.
• Production Engineering at Facebook [Arabic] by Ahmed Soliman at FB Developer Circles & Egyptian Geeks Meetup.
• Getting Started with SRE by Stephen Thorne at DevOps Enterprise Summit.
• Building a Bank with Kubernetes by Oliver Beattie at Kubecon.
• Cloud Capacity Planning by Andrew Park at SouthBay SRE.
• Getting Started with SRE by Stephen Thorne, from Google.
• Scaling Instagram Infrastructure by Lisa Guo at QCon 2017.
• A/B Testing by Stuart Frisby, principal designer at Booking.com
• The RED Method How To Instrument Your Services by Tom Wilkie.
• Cloud Performance Root Cause Analysis at Netflix by Brendan Gregg.

Computer Networking

• Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach
• CMU 15-445/645 Intro to Database Systems, by Carnegie Mellon University.
• TCP Tuning for the Web by Jason Cook at Linux Conference Australia 2014.

Misc Computer Science

• 6.042J: Mathematics for Computer Science, by Tom Leighton from MIT.
• 6.858 Computer Systems Security, from MIT.
• Secret History of Silicon Valley by Steve Blank.

Interview Prep

• Cracking The Coding Interview, by Gayle Laakman.
• Grokking the System Design Interview [Not free], by Educative.
• Intro to Architecture and Systems Design Interviews by Jackson Gabbard.

Other Books I Like

• The Art of Strategy, by Avinash K. Dixit, and Barry J. Nalebuff.
• The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell.
• Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell.
• The Everything Store, by Brad Stone.
• The Pixar Touch, by David A. Price.
• The Start-up of You, by Reid Hoffman, and Ben Casnocha.
• The Hacker’s Diet, by John Walker.
• Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide, by Hal Higdon.

Cycling Resources

• Hills Are NOT Harder Than Cycling On The Flat (Says Science)
• Hill Climb Science: How to Correctly Pace Long Hill Climbs using a Power Meter

Misc

• Geeks for Geeks
• Teach Yourself Computer Science
• Data Measurement Chart
• Rice Up Your i3wm
• Levels: Compare Career Levels across Companies
• Martin Kleppmann’s Blog Posts
• Brian Will’s Youtube Channel
• Explain Shell
• Regular Expressions 101
• Greg Hurrell’s Youtube Channel about vim and neovim

LibraryThings

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