Recommendations

Some of my favorite content

Books

• The Genome Odyssey - Angus Ashley

• Why We Sleep - Mathew Walker

• Designing Data Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann

Technical Blogs

• Amazon Builder's Library

• Marc Brooker's Blog

• The Pragmatic Engineer Blog

• AirBnB Tech Blog

• Uber Engineering Blog

• Netflix Tech Blog

Videos

• Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hoods (2018)

• The Immune System Explained

• The MicroBiome

• Patterns of Effective Teams • Dan North • GOTO 2017

• Google I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer

• The Algebra of Happiness

• Don’t chase happiness. Become antifragile | Tal Ben-Shahar | Big Think

• Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup

• The Trillion Dollar Equation

• The most important skill in statistics

• 3Blue1Brown -- Differential Equations

• MonteCarlo Simulations

• 3Blue1Brown - Central Limit Theorem

• 3Blue1Brown - Neural Networks

• 3Blue1Brown - Linear Algebra

• Hamming codes

Technical Papers

• Amazon Redshift Re-Invented: 10 Years of Innovation

• Amazon Aurora

• Google's Chubby Lock Service

• Amazon DynamoDB (2022)

• Log Structured File Systems

• Quantifying Eventual Consistency

• Cockroach DB

• Amazon Dynamo

• Kafka (Original Paper)

• ZooKeeper

• Chain Replication

Courses

• Frontend Masters - Git

• Frontend Masters - Algorithm Fundamentals

• Frontend Masters - Advanced Algorithms