A list of links, books and resources That i liked.
Reading
- Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach (9th edition) • Jim Kurose and Keith W. Ross 250/911
To read
- Notes on logic • Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Think Distributed Systems • Dominik Tornow
- High Performance networking • Ilya Grigorik
- Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques • Jim Gray, Andreas Reuter
- Database Interals • Alex Petrov
- Operating Systems Three Easy Pieces • Remzi H Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C Arpaci-Dusseau
- The design of postgres
- The metamorphosis • Franz Kafka
- Designing data-intesive applications • Martin Kleppmann
- Steppenwolf • Hermann Hesse
- Simulacra and simulation • Jean Baudrillard
- Brave new world • Aldous Huxley
- 2666 • Roberto Bolaño
- Narcissus and goldmund • Hermann Hesse
- The visual display of quantitative information • Edward R.Tufte
- Systems performance: Enterprise and the cloud • Brendan Gregg
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: the duty of genius • Ray Monk
- The overcoat • Nikolai Gogol
- How computers really work: A hands-on guide to the inner workings of the machine • Matthew Justice
- Readings in database systems (Red book) • Peter Bailis, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker
- SQL indexing and tuning e-book
Cool websites
- Practical typography
Online typography book that concerns any type of work with textual content - Gwern
Interesting website and writings with a wealth of information and resources - Ludwigabap
Gold mine of technical resources for computer science and more - Grant Slatton
- maxkorler
- Nabeel S.Quareshi
- https://www.kalzumeus.com/
- https://near.blog/
Books
- The making of prince of persia: Journals 1985-1993 • Jordan Machner
- Code: the hidden language of computer hardware and software • Charles Perzold
- Computer organization and design (RISC-V edition) • Davis A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy
- The maniac • Benjamín Labatut
- The soul of a new machine • Tracy Kidder
- Stoner • John williams
- Augustus • John Williams
- Abigail • Magda Szabó
- Understanding Language: A basic course in linguistics • Elizabeth Grace Winkler
- Life between buildings: using public space • Jan gehl
- The remains of the day • Kazuo Ishiguro
- Late fame • Arthur Shnitzler
- Les Misérables • Victor Hugo
- Of mice and men • John Steinbeck
- To kill a mockingbird • Harper Lee
- Dark Matter • Blake Crouch
- Neverwhere • Neil Gaiman
- The shadow of the wind • Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- The invention of morel • Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals • Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
- Web Typography • Richard Rutter
- Toyota production systems: Beyond large-scale production • Taiichi Ohno
Links
- I don’t care for gnome
- Reducing table size with optimal column ordering and array-based storage
- Ankane/pghero: A performance dashboard for Postgres
- How to actually change your mind
- How complex systems fail
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018
- Error handling in rust and more resources
- PlanetScale engineering blog
- Getting_started_with_database_development
- Life is short
- B+Tree index structures in InnoDB
- Don’t do this in postgres
- The comprehension curve
- Self hosting
- The problem with using a uuid primary key in mysql
- The use of complacency