Public version of an internal Google document by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. Extensive guide about how to think about performance gains, what tools to use and code improvements to think about.

Concise read that will urge you to introspect about your career goals and if your current job is meeting those requirements.

Good collection of things to keep in mind when building/maintaining distributed systems. Case made for feature flags, extracting services, coordination and backpressure especially resonate.

Fascinating read about how individual fields of a struct are allocated memory and how we can optimise the same.

If what this post describes is the outcome of accessibility to LLMs, our world will have changed for the better.

No nonsense, easy to approach guide to network concepts and socket programming.

An articulate writeup about the feeling of being overwhelmed with the amount of tasks at hand. The solution? Do literally anything.

Introduces different ways to approach optimisation, agnostic of the language. Complete with real world examples, this was a delight to read and ponder upon.

Excellent introduction to how Conflict-free Replicated Data Types work. Stumbled across this while reading about how conflict resolution happens in multi leader replication.

Accompanying blogpost and the code snippets of all 4 kinds of rate limiters used in Stripe. Extremely simple and easy to follow.

Succinctly lists the qualities that any effective senior+ engineer should have.

Glanceable visual graphic to understand how long it takes to fetch data from different sources. Found this while reading System Design Interview.

Insightful post about how Wix improved their DX. Found this while working on a self initiated project internally to surface actionable error messages.

In the author’s own words, this is a README.txt for your career as a young engineer. Brimming with timeless advice and realities of our industry.

Excellent blog on log, how they are used in databases and distributed systems. One of my all time favourite pieces to re-read.