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A curated library of the articles, guides, and talks I keep reaching for when I need inspiration or a refresher.
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Article
The future belongs to people who can just do things
Perspective on AI adoption stages in engineering teams and why organizations should accelerate practical skill development.
Geoffrey Huntley
Article
What do I mean by some software devs are "ngmi"?
A scenario-driven essay arguing that performance rankings can shift quickly as engineers adopt AI-assisted workflows and others stay in disbelief.
Geoffrey Huntley
Post
Claire Vo post on X
Referenced X post from Claire Vo. Add context notes once tweet text is captured.
Claire Vo
Article
Graphite: The End of Mammoth Pull Requests? My Experience
Nicolas Charpentier's experience report on using stacked PR workflows with Graphite to reduce oversized pull requests and improve review velocity.
Nicolas Charpentier
Article
everything is a ralph loop
Geoffrey Huntley's post on "Ralph loops" as an iterative software-development operating model and why loop design matters more than one-pass implementation.
Geoffrey Huntley
Book
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The most approachable deep dive into modern data systems, covering replication, partitioning, streams, and consistency tradeoffs.
Martin Kleppmann
Guide
The System Design Primer
A curated GitHub guide that walks through end-to-end architectures, capacity planning, and interview-ready diagrams.
Donne Martin
Newsletter
High Scalability
Case studies and breakdowns of how large-scale products ship reliable distributed systems in production.
Todd Hoff
Course
Stanford CS245: Database Systems
Graduate-level lectures that explain storage engines, query planning, and the cost models behind relational databases.
Stanford University
Repository
Awesome Postgres
A living list of extensions, tooling, and best practices for running Postgres in production.
dhamaniasad
Newsletter
Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter
Candid breakdowns of engineering org design, infrastructure bets, and pragmatic leadership lessons.
Gergely Orosz
Blog
Uber Engineering Blog
Detailed write-ups of how Uber scales storage, ML, observability, and reliability across a global org.
Uber Engineering
Guide
Uber Go Style Guide
Uber's comprehensive Go style guide covering conventions, patterns, and best practices.
Uber
Article
How to Write HTTP Services in Go After 13 Years
Mat Ryer's definitive guide on structuring HTTP services in Go with lessons from over a decade of experience.
Mat Ryer
Go Team
Article
Idempotency Keys
Stripe's deep dive into designing idempotent APIs for reliable payment processing.
Stripe
Article
Idempotency Keys with Go and Postgres
Practical implementation of Stripe-style idempotency keys using Go and PostgreSQL.
Inheaden
Documentation
PostgreSQL Documentation
Official PostgreSQL 16 documentation covering all aspects of the database.
PostgreSQL
Documentation
Redis Distributed Locks
Official Redis guide on implementing distributed locks with the Redlock algorithm.
Redis
Paper
Amazon Dynamo Paper
The foundational paper on Amazon's highly available key-value store that influenced NoSQL databases.
Amazon
Guide
AWS Database Selection Guide
AWS decision guide for choosing the right database service for your use case.
AWS
Documentation
Google Cloud Run Deployment
Official guide on deploying containerized applications to Cloud Run.
Google Cloud
Documentation
Kubernetes Services and Networking
Official Kubernetes documentation on services, load balancing, and network policies.
Kubernetes
HashiCorp
Paper
Attention Is All You Need (Transformers)
The groundbreaking paper introducing the Transformer architecture that powers modern LLMs.
Google
Liu Zheng
Pattern
Saga Pattern for Microservices
Pattern for managing distributed transactions across microservices.
Chris Richardson
Article
Facebook TAO: The Power of the Graph
How Facebook built TAO, their distributed data store for the social graph.
Facebook Engineering
Facebook
Paper
Bitcoin Whitepaper
Satoshi Nakamoto's original paper introducing Bitcoin and blockchain technology.
Satoshi Nakamoto
Andreas Antonopoulos
Community
Uniswap
MIT
Article
Geohashing and Quadtrees
Visual explanation of spatial indexing techniques for location-based systems.
Karan Pratap Singh
Google SRE
Testcontainers
Brandur
Dave Cheney
Article
Common Anti-Patterns in Go Web Apps
Practical guide to avoiding common mistakes in Go web applications.
Three Dots Labs
Documentation
Helm Chart Template Guide
Official guide to creating Helm chart templates for Kubernetes.
Helm
Specification
Conventional Commits
Specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages.
Community
MDN
Wikipedia
Oz Nova & Myles Byrne
Will Larson
Google
Course
Stanford CS329S: ML Systems Design
Stanford course on designing and deploying machine learning systems.
Stanford
GoReleaser
Nikita Prokopov
Community
Systems in Pixels
Mercari Engineering
Foundry
Repository
Crypto Reading List
Jump Crypto's curated reading list for blockchain and crypto engineering.
Jump Crypto
Solana
ConsenSys Diligence
Apache
IBM
Article
Two Tower Model for Recommendations
Deep dive into the two-tower architecture for recommendation systems.
Shaped
vLLM Project
Cognition
Google Research
SaaS Landing Page
Portfolio
Anthony Fu's Personal Site
Minimal text-forward portfolio by the creator of Vitest, Slidev, and VueUse. No hero animation, no decoration — credibility through output density.
Anthony Fu
Portfolio
Lee Robinson's Site
Pure content-hierarchy personal site by Vercel's VP of Product. System fonts, generous whitespace, no animations — the restraint is the signal.
Lee Robinson
Portfolio
Rauno Freiberg's Site
Interaction designer at Vercel. Refined restraint with subtle geometric CSS accents, careful color variables, and a craft-first philosophy.
Rauno Freiberg
Portfolio
Paco Coursey's Site
Designer-developer focused on typography, motion, and polished interfaces. Minimal personal site embodying his philosophy: all I want to do is build websites.
Paco Coursey
Portfolio
Emil Kowalski's Site
Design engineer whose site opens directly into current work with no traditional hero. Refined typography, dark mode, intentional subtraction over decoration.
Emil Kowalski
Article
Train Your Judgement — Emil Kowalski
Interactive article teaching animation quality through A/B comparisons. Centered column, generous whitespace, serif inline elements. A model for content-first technical writing.
Emil Kowalski
Portfolio
Egor Builds
Dark portfolio with yellow hover accents, portrait-led hero, DM Sans + Playfair Display + JetBrains Mono type system. Professional yet approachable.
Egor
Portfolio
Pedro Duarte's Site
Creator of Radix UI. Intentional simplicity with custom fonts, SVG noise texture, and content-first layout. Code, content, and other things.
Pedro Duarte
Gallery
Godly — Web Design Inspiration
Curated gallery of astronomically good web design. Best reference for contemporary portfolio and creative site aesthetics.
Godly
Portfolio
Josh W. Comeau's Site
React and CSS educator. Animated SVG illustrations and layered section transitions — the most visually decorated of the minimalist-adjacent personal sites, justified by his joy-of-coding brand.
Josh W. Comeau