Shelf

• shelf A list of blog posts, videos, exercises on various tech topics that I find useful.

** Productivity *** Org mode

• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM][Emacs Org-mode - a system for note-taking and project planning - Carsten Dominik]] An introduction to emacs org mode by the creator Carsten Dominik himself. This was a part of the google tech talks 2008. This is a very simple but comprehensive talk on why org mode exists and how to use it.
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzA2YODtgK4][Getting Started With Org Mode]] - [[https://harryrschwartz.com/][Harry Schwartz]] This is a getting started guide on what org mode is and some of the crazy stuff you can get done using org mode on emacs.
• [[https://orgmode.org/orgguide.pdf][orgmode guide]]

** System Design *** System Architecture

• [[http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2011/11/15/documenting-architecture-decisions][Documenting Architecture Decisions - Michael Nygard]]

*** Concurrency

• [[http://java.ociweb.com/mark/stm/article.html][Software Transactional Memory]]

*** Distributed Systems

• [[https://github.com/theanalyst/awesome-distributed-systems][Awesome Distributed Systems]]
• [[https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html][Amazon's Dynamo]]
• [[http://firmament.io/blog/scheduler-architectures.html][Cluster Scheduler Architecture]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0][Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza by Martin Kleppmann]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO3SBU6vVKA][Building real-time data products at LinkedIn with Apache Samza]] **** Kubernetes
• [[https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/?path=users&persona=app-developer&level=foundational][Kubernetes Documentation]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pozC9rBvAIs][Managing Containers at Scale with CoreOS and Kubernetes by Kelsey Hightower]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA8XNVPZM2w][Container Orchestration using CoreOS and Kubernetes, Part 1/3]] - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9pF-Bv8AkI][Part 2/3]] - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZbwDH-_a_M][Part 3/3]]

*** Scalability

• [[https://github.com/binhnguyennus/awesome-scalability][Awesome Scalability]]
• [[https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2014-tcp-time-wait-state-linux][TCP Time Wait state on linux]]
• [[https://www.infoq.com/articles/Java-Thread-Pool-Performance-Tuning][Java Thread Pool Performance Tuning]]
  • [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little's_law][Little's Law - Wikipedia]]

*** Experimentation - A/B Testing

• [[https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/36500.pdf][Overlapping Experiment Infrastructure: More, Better, Faster Experimentation - Google]]
• [[https://ai.stanford.edu/~ronnyk/2007GuideControlledExperiments.pdf][Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments on the Web: Listen to Your Customers not to the HiPPO - Microsft]]
• [[http://ai.stanford.edu/~ronnyk/2009controlledExperimentsOnTheWebSurvey.pdf][Controlled experiments on the web: survey and practical guide - Ron Kohavi, et al]]
• [[https://content.linkedin.com/content/dam/engineering/site-assets/pdfs/ABTestingSocialNetwork_share.pdf][A/B Testing Challenges in Large Scale Social Networks - Linkedin]]
• [[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324889185_The_Anatomy_of_a_Large-Scale_Online_Experimentation_Platform][The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Online Experimentation Platform - Microsft]]
• [[https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/its-all-a-bout-testing-the-netflix-experimentation-platform-4e1ca458c15][Netflix Experimentaiton Platform]]
• [[https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/https-medium-com-jonathan-parks-scaling-erf-23fd17c91166][Scaling Airbnb’s Experimentation Platform]]
• [[https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/experiment-reporting-framework-4e3fcd29e6c0][Experiment Reporting Framework - Airbnb]]
• [[https://exp-platform.com/Documents/2017-05%20ICSE2017_CharacterizingExP.pdf][Characterizing Experimentation in Continuous Deployment: a Case Study on Bing - Microsoft]]
• [[https://eng.uber.com/experimentation-platform/][Building an Intelligent Experimentation Platform with Uber Engineering]]
• [[https://assets.ctfassets.net/zw48pl1isxmc/6bUM4v36PCuAcScwiCIcAC/d17ec7521608974479c3cf5b67f9232e/Optimizely_12.26_Yearly_Article_License.pdf][The Surprising Power of Online Experiments - Harvard Business Review]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJX4W3MwKzU][Stanford Seminar: Peeking at A/B Tests - Why It Matters and What to Do About It]]
• More
  • [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing][A/B Testing - Wikipedia]]
  • [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis][Null Hypothesis - Wikipedia]]
  • [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratified_sampling][Stratified Sampling - Wikipedia]]

** Storage/Queue *** Postgresql

• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svqQzYFBPIo][Explaining the Postgres Query Optimizer]] - [[https://momjian.us/][Bruce Momjian]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byl_CoucJE0][MVCC Unmasked]] - [[https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/mvcc.pdf][slides]] - [[https://momjian.us/][Bruce Momjian]]
• [[https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/03/30/five-ways-to-paginate/][Five ways to paginate in Postgres, from the basic to the exotic - Joe Nelson]] An interesting and detailed blog on 5 different ways to serve paginated responses while using postgresql as your datastore.
• [[https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server][Tuning your postgresql server]]
• [[https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Performance_Optimization][Performance Optimization]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAT6OZ9Xel4][A scalable, versioned document store in PostgreSQL]] This is talk at the 2018 PostgresOpen which talks about how Udacity maintains their whole curriculum in a postgres database while allowing for versioning of changes in their tree like data model. It's a very informative talk, if not for postgres but how they modeled a git like semantics in postgres
• [[https://www.youtube.com/user/postgresopen][ANSI, Schmansi!]] The not so ANSI SQL features that postgres provides that makes it a better whole round database and that might nudge you into using postgres or even using postgres in a better way. This is just an overall walk through of such features. Quite a bit that I personally wasn't aware of.
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhOkob2PQFQ][Identifying Slow Queries and Fixing Them!]] This talk revolves around methods of identifying slow queries like logs, tools and in build postgres shared libs. Then it focuses on the reasons why there could be slow queries in the first place. And lastly on to what are the ways these could be avoided. This is not a very specific use case fix my all problem guide but an overall where all to look guide.
• [[https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/postgresql-concurrency][PostgreSQL Concurrency with MVCC - Heroku]]
• [[https://blog.sentry.io/2015/07/23/transaction-id-wraparound-in-postgres.html][Transaction ID Wraparound in Postgres - Sentry]]
• [[https://blog.gojekengineering.com/postgres-autovacuum-tuning-394bb99fe2c0][Tuning Postgres Autovacuum for Scale - Gojek]]
• [[https://blog.2ndquadrant.com/autovacuum-tuning-basics/][Autovacuum tuning basics]]
• [[https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Lock_Monitoring][Lock Monitoring - postgresql wiki]]
• [[https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/routine-vacuuming.html][Routine vacuuming - documentation]]
• [[https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/explicit-locking.html][Explicit locking - documentation]]
• [[https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/monitoring-stats.html][Monitoring stats]]
• [[https://justatheory.com/2012/04/postgres-use-timestamptz/][Use timestamptz]]
• [[http://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html][Internals of PostgreSQL]]
• Blogs
  • [[https://www.keithf4.com/tag/postgresql/][Keith Fiske]]
  • [[https://rhaas.blogspot.com/][Robert Haas]]
• Tools
  • [[https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/#/][pgtune]] - Tune your postgresql instance better
  • [[http://pgbadger.darold.net/][pgBadger]] - postgres log analyser
  • [[https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/pgbench.html][pgbench]] - benchmark postgres
  • [[https://explain.depesz.com/][explain.depesz.com]] - better understand your query plan

*** MySQL

• [[https://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else][Choose Something Else]]

*** Redis

• [[https://redis.io/topics/cluster-tutorial][Redis Cluster]]
• [[https://redis.io/topics/persistence][Persistence]]

*** Kafka

• [[https://kafka.apache.org/intro][Intro into kafka]]
• [[https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#design][Kafka - design]]
• [[https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/best-practices-for-running-apache-kafka-on-aws/][Best practicies on running on aws]]
• [[https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/confluent-kafka-definitive-guide-complete.pdf][Confluent kafka: The definitive guide - pdf]]
• [[https://docs.confluent.io/current/streams/concepts.html][Kafka streams]]
• [[https://docs.confluent.io/current/streams/architecture.html][Kafka stream - architecture]]
• [[https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying][Log: What every engineer should know ...]] - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKe7w_wOzSI][I love logs]]

** Programming Languages *** Clojure

• [[https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide][Clojure Style Guide]] - [[https://github.com/bbatsov][@bbatsov]]
• [[https://re-find.it/][Find clojure functions that does a given data transformation]]
• [[http://clojure-doc.org/articles/language/concurrency_and_parallelism.html][Concurrency & Parallelism in Clojure]]
• [[https://clojure.org/guides/spec][Clojure Spec]]
• [[https://8thlight.com/blog/colin-jones/2012/05/22/quoting-without-confusion.html][Quoting Without Confusion]]
• [[https://github.com/rm-hull/infix][infix]] - lib
• [[https://github.com/rm-hull/jasentaa][jasentaa]] - lib, parser
• [[https://vimeo.com/45561411][Reducers - Rich Hickey @ EuroClojure 2012]] A great talk by Rich Hickey on why he wrote reducers and why you would want to use them. His example of apples -> apple pie is a great analogy on why you would want to use reducers in your applications.

*** Go

• [[https://github.com/golang/go/wiki#learning-more-about-go][Learning more about go]]
• [[https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments][Go Code Review Comments]]
• [[https://go-proverbs.github.io/][go proverbs]]
• [[https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/gophercon-2018-allocator-wrestling/][Gophercon 2018 - Allocator Wrestling]]
• [[https://github.com/google/gops][google/gops - A tool to list and diagnose Go processes currently running on your system]]

** Leadership

• [[https://blog.usejournal.com/how-to-fail-as-a-new-engineering-manager-30b5fb617a][How to fail as a new engineering manager]] - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18011381][HN]]
• [[http://www.defmacro.org/2014/10/03/engman.html][Engineering Management]] - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14381264][HN]]
• [[https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pendulum-or-the-ladder/][Engineering management: The pendulum or the ladder]]
• [[https://blog.gitprime.com/camille-fournier-on-scaling-structure-and-growing-as-an-engineering-manager/][Camille Fournier on Scaling, Structure, and Growing as an Engineering Manager]]
• [[https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-managers-path/9781491973882/][Book: The managers path]]
• [[http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-update-the-vent-and-the-disaster/][1:1s - The update the vent and the disaster]]

** Misc

• [[https://sivers.org/book][Derek Sivers - Books read]]
• [[https://samnewman.io/patterns/architectural/bff/][Backend For Frontend - Sam Newman]]
• [[http://playbook.samaltman.com/][Startup Playbook - Sam Altman]]
• [[https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html][Leslie Lamport's publications]]
• [[https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life][How will you measure your life?]]
• [[http://paulgraham.com/useful.html][How to write usefully - Paul Graham]]
• [[http://paulgraham.com/articles.html][Essays by Paul Graham]]
• [[https://teachyourselfcs.com/][Teach Yourself Computer Science]] A collection of materials(books, online course etc) to help grasp the concepts of computer science. This mostly takes you down the general course material for computer science degree.

** Conference talks

• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U8UQzr8T4k][What Google Learned about Creating Effective Teams]] - leadership, team
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLS6NXMXtLI][GOTO 2018 • Talking with Tech Leads • Patrick Kua]] - leadership, team, tech-lead
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE9c9AZe-DY][How slack works]] - tech, messaging, architecture, distributed-systems
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFjvJmS_uDo][Paying Technical Debt at Scale - Migrations @Stripe]] - tech, team, management, scale, migration, technical-debts
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtMmxqkPVug][How to take great Engineers & make them great Technical Leaders • Courtney Hemphill]] - tech, team, management, leadership
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ow-UemzBc][Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way]] - tech, doing-it-right, microservice
• [[https://www.infoq.com/presentations/neflix-push-messaging-scale][Scaling Push Messaging for Millions of Devices @Netflix]] - tech, scaling, push-messaging, netflix
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymIZ5HhH0o4][Refactoring Organizations - A Netflix Study]] - tech, management, scaling-organizations
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BsiVyC1kM][The value of values with Rich Hickey]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROor6_NGIWU][The language of the system - Rich Hickey]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wASCH_gPnDw][Expert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA][The Hard Parts of Open Source - Evan Czaplicki]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc][Hammock driven development - Rich Hickey]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34_L7t7fD_U][Simpel made Easy - Rich Hickey]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGVqrGmwOAw][Clojure concurrency - Rich Hickey]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC_MTD68erY][One Million Clicks per Minute with Kafka and Clojure - Devon Peticolas]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_DpYBzKso&t=14s][Concurrency is not parallelism - Rob Pike]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrMbzHdPLKM][Tuning PostgreSQL for High Write Workloads]]
• [[https://youtu.be/30jNsCVLpAE][Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M][Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code]]
• [[https://vimeo.com/36579366][Inventing on Principle - Bret Victor]]
• [[https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat][Wat - A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAFZcYlO5S0][Software Architecture vs Code - Simon Brown]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4][The Future of Programming - Bret Victor]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI][Keynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMGAtxUlAc][Principles of Technology Leadership - Bryan Cantrill]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE][Lexical Scanning in Go - Rob Pike]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw][You and Your Research - Dr. Richard W. Hamming]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0][Growing a Language - Guy Steele]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0][Simplicity Matters - Rich Hickey]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE][Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill]]
• [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc][Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos]]