An ever evolving list of links. This page will keep getting cleaned, organized, appended, disorganized.
Blogs list
- Database Doctor - Thomas Kejser
- I like this guy. Dude is neuro-atypical (autistic, but in a good way) with a focus on databases. So you know his stuff is going to be good.
- philippdubach.com - Quantitative Finance, AI & Technology
- https://justinjaffray.com/posts/ Justin Jaffray - datadog guy
- ben-evans.com - Benedict Evans
- wippler.dev/posts/
- meltingasphalt.com/archive/ by Kevin Simler -
- leopard.in.ua/ - Alexey Vasiliev (Postgres stuff)
- matthewstrom.com/writing - Matthew Ström - head of design stripe
- ludic.mataroa.blog/ - Australian guy writing some of the best ranty posts I've read on the internet
- sirupsen.com/ - Simon Horup Eskildsen
ajaydwivedi.com/ - sql server guy
eli.thegreenplace.net/archives/all - has covered almost all topics in cs. Recommended by Phil Eaton.
- one2n's stories - https://playbook.one2n.in/pragmatic-software-engineering-stories
- startdataengineering.com/post/ - around 1 post per month on data engineering
- practical, actionable posts. not just theoritical.
- manthanguptaa.in/manthan gupta - (3 articles on replication in distrisys articles)
- copyninja.in/ - has a nice blog
- jack-vanlightly.com/ Jack Vanlightly - Works on kafka
- justinjaffray.com/posts/ - Justin Jaffray - a database guy
- two-wrongs.com/A quant tech guy's blog. EXCELLENT articles.
- shekhargulati.com - Shekhar gulati - writes summaries of papers, blog posts etc
- rohanverma.net/archives/ - rohan verma (zerodha)
- starship-knowledge.com/- EXPERT KNOWLEDGE AT A GLANCE -
- notes.eatonphil.com/ - tigerbeetle guy
- vitalik.eth.limo/ - vitalik buterin (Ethereum)
- mitchellh.com/writing- mitchell hashimoto (hashicorp)
- davidgomes.com/ - David Gnomes - Director of Engineering at SingleStore
- brooker.co.za/blog/ - Mark Brooker, AWS
Company blogs
Blog posts I like
- Modal: Linear Programming for Fun and Profit - constraint-solver class of problems
Cloud Infra
AI Infra
- Imbue - From bare metal to a 70B model: infrastructure set-up and scripts
- Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 nodes - OpenAI
AWS
Computing
- We really don't know how to compute - Gerald
- Causality blog - the concurrency problem (series of articles)
Data structures
- CRDT introduction (Excellent)
Databases and storages
Data structures
- B+Tree index structures in InnoDB by the living MySQL legend Jeremy Cole
Opendata - OpenData - SlateDb - Db engine built for object storage (rust)
Distrisys
- Murat Buffalo - Foundational distributes systems papers
- A distributed systems reliability glossary by Antithesis and Aphyr (of Jespen)
Linux
Python stuff
- Building WSGI server etc from scratch - mleue.com/
- pythonspeed.com - in depth python articles
- mathspp.com - deeper python
- Cosmic python - book for software architecture when using python
Human
- ⭐Buried Talents - How elites betray their own potential by Edan Kroolewicz
- The Golden Handcuffs: Why Our Brightest Minds Retreat into “Pragmatic Emptiness” by Edan Kroolewicz
Career
- No, you don't want to hire "the best engineers"
- Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued by patio11
- Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice by patio11
Management
- Awesome engineering management - Github
- Modern Agile is Stupid: on why all great ideas are killed by simple-minded idiots, why Jira kills software, and how to be a good manager
- Statistical Process Control: A Practitioner’s Guide (2wrongs) (was as two-wrongs.com, now redirecting to entropicthoughts.com)
- Kelly criterion (2 wrongs) (was as two-wrongs.com, now redirecting to entropicthoughts.com)
- How to Give a Status Update To Executives - Jacob Kaplan-Moss (also has a lot of great articles in his blog)
Math
- ⭐Number theory explained from first principles by Kaspar Etter
Podcasts
Blog posts
- My subconscious doesn't like LLMs 2025 Jul 16 | 10m (1970 words)
- Computers understanding humans makes codebases irrelevant 2023 Apr 08 | 6m (1269 words)
- Own your email's domain 2023 Feb 12 | 5m (934 words)
- Isolates + storage over http + orchestrators is the future that has arrived 2023 Jan 03 | 6m (1120 words)
Articles
I learn through writing, so I write a lot. Most of these are ever evolving pieces.
python
- Unicode string normalization schemes in Python 2024 May 06 | 7m (1329 words)
resources
- Links collection 2025 Jun 15 | 3m (647 words)
- Papers, books, talks etc 2025 Jun 02 | 4m (818 words)
spark
- Partition discovery and partition read optimization in spark 2023 Nov 16 | 5m (1012 words)
- Spark Microbook 2025 Oct 16 | 29m (5351 words)
- Spark join strategies 2024 Jan 22 | 13m (2442 words)
- Spark performance optimization compendium 2025 Oct 11 | 7m (1370 words)
webtech
- JWT - a quick overview of its working and encryption algorithms 2024 Apr 02 | 12m (2321 words)
work
- Lecture - You and your research by Dr. Richard Hamming 2024 Oct 14 | 1hr18m (14441 words)
- Why charge more as an engineer 2025 Oct 13 | 6m (1252 words)