awesome-stuff
github.com/lvn/awesome-stuff ↗Curated list of miscellaneous reading material.
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Product
- 10x not 10%
- How to Build Great Products
A blog post on identifying good features to build for a product, and how to allocate resourcces.
Architecture
- Adventures in message queues
- Architecture of Open Source Applications
Contains short chapters on the architectures of various open source software.
- Edgestore
- Enterprise Integration Patterns
General primer on distributed messaging.
- Facebook and Memcached
- How Does a Relational Database Work?
Systemsy Stuff
- Architecture of a Database SystemGeneral Databases
- Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data"NoSQL" Systems
The
- Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database SystemsDistributed Transactions
- Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet ApplicationsDHTs
- Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store"NoSQL" Systems
The original NoSQL datastore. Uses a bunch of really neat tricks. Inspiration for Riak and Cassandra, and a bunch of others.
- In Search of an Understandable Consensus AlgorithmConsensus
introduced Raft, a consensus algorithm that seems to be becoming more popular than Paxos.
Startups
- Are "Better" Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Empirical Analysis of Startup Evaluation
- Early Excite History
slides on the history of Excite. Has some discussions near the end about why Google survived and Excite didn't.
- Founders at Work
Collection of interviews with various tech entrepreneurs.
- Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur
- Meta-Programming: A Software Production Method
a paper on organizing software developers for productivity.
- Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good
A look at the startup world just before the 2008 crisis.
Random
- Bay Area to Standard American English Translator
- The Codeless Code
Zen koans, but for software development.
Blogs
- Ben Horowitz
one half of a16z.
- Evan Miller
guy writes about applied math, programming languages, random tech stuff...
- Jacques Mattheij
cool stuff about tech
- Jamie Zawinski
well-known Netscape/Mozilla engineer.
- Paul Graham
founder of YC and Viaweb.
- Purple Motes
Interesting stuff from history
Career
- Breakout Career Notes
Collections of career tips from tech entrepreneurs and VCs.
- Guide for Technical Development
- Pmarca Guide to Career Planning
Career guide from Marc Andreesen.
Mildly Interesting
- Brian Bi on K&R C
Blog post about early installment weirdness in the C language.
- Codepen Thing
A really awesome visualization of a Fourier transform.
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