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Reading List

Papers, books, and articles that shaped how I think about software.

Blogs & Articles

  • K8s with 1M nodes Ben Chess - Scaling K8s control plane to extreme limits
  • Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes OpenAI - Real-world K8s challenges at scale
  • Julia Evans' Blog Julia Evans - Approachable deep dives into networking, Linux, and debugging
  • Visualizing Neural Machine Translation (Seq2Seq with Attention) Jay Alammar - Best visual explanation of attention mechanisms
  • Zed Decoded: Rope & SumTree Zed Engineering - How Zed uses ropes for high-performance text editing
  • PyTorch in One Hour: From Tensors to Training Neural Networks on Multiple GPUs Sebastian Raschka
  • symlinks and .so files on linux - what you need to know Dimitri Merejkowsky
  • How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages Discord Engineering - ScyllaDB migration at massive scale
  • Choosing the Right Database ByteByteGo - Practical database selection guide
  • The Log: What every software engineer should know Jay Kreps - Foundational distributed systems concept

Papers

  • Attention Is All You Need Vaswani et al. - The transformer paper that changed everything
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann - The bible of distributed systems design
  • The Google File System Ghemawat, Gobioff, Leung - Foundation of modern distributed storage

Books

  • The Pragmatic Programmer David Thomas, Andrew Hunt - Timeless software engineering wisdom
  • The Phoenix Project Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford - DevOps culture through storytelling

Newsletters & Feeds

  • Spacelift.io blog - For Cloud and IAC best practices
  • TLDR Newsletter TLDR - Daily tech digest
  • ByteByteGo Alex Xu - System design deep dives
  • The Morning Paper Adrian Colyer - CS paper summaries (archived)

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