External Resources

Last Updated: 2022-04-25

Here lists some useful external links.

Conferences

Company Driven

Google:

• Google IO
• Google Cloud Next
• Chrome Summit
• Android Summit

Amazon:

• AWS re:invent

Facebook:

• @Scale https://atscaleconference.com/

Adobe:

• Adobe MAX https://max.adobe.com/

Oracle:

• Code One (previous JavaOne) https://www.oracle.com/code-one/

Language Specific

C++:

• Cppcon: https://cppcon.org/

Java:

• JAX: https://jaxlondon.com/

Software

• StrangeLoop: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/
• Strata: http://strataconf.com/
• Fluent
• OSCON：open source convention
• GotoCon: http://gotocon.com/
• springone https://springone.io/

AI/ML

• KDD
• ICML
• NIPS
  • videos: https://www.facebook.com/pg/nipsfoundation/videos/

Conference Videos

https://conftree.com/videos

• The Future Of Programming

Learning Websites

• https://www.freecodecamp.org/
• http://nand2tetris.org/

Programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_operator

Languages

Java

• List of Java Enhancement Proposals(JEP): http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/0
• www.baeldung.com
• http://tech.jonathangardner.net/wiki/Why_Java_Sucks

Go

• Go memory management: https://povilasv.me/go-memory-management/

Python

• class method vs staticmethod https://stackoverflow.com/questions/136097/what-is-the-difference-between-staticmethod-and-classmethod-in-python
• python sorting: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/sorting.html

Bash

• https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible

JavaScript

• https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms
• https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

SQL

https://modern-sql.com/

Algorithms

• https://www.algorithm-archive.org/
• Boyer Moore string search algorithm：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string-search_algorithm
• http://www.fusu.us/2013/07/median-in-large-set-across-1000-servers.html

Github Collections

• Post Mortems(Deep dives of system failures)
• https://github.com/fpereiro/backendlore

open graph protocol

http://ogp.me/

CheatSheet

• Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236

Online Books/Tutorials

• Official Java Tutorials
• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

Public Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure

• cloud comparison: http://comparecloud.in/
• AWS: restrict HTTP referrer https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/example-bucket-policies.html#example-bucket-policies-use-case-4
• BigQuery Public Data: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/
• https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd

DevOps / SRE

• https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/the-site-reliability/9781492029496/ch01.html
• https://github.com/michael-kehoe/awesome-sre-cheatsheets

Databases

• mysql vs postgres: https://hackernoon.com/showdown-mysql-8-vs-postgresql-10-3fe23be5c19e
• data base for distributed locking:(Dynamo) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/building-distributed-locks-with-the-dynamodb-lock-client/
• database for message queue: RDS(Mysql) https://segment.com/blog/introducing-centrifuge/
• aurora: https://www.percona.com/blog/2015/11/16/amazon-aurora-looking-deeper/
• https://githubengineering.com/mysql-high-availability-at-github/
• LFU cache:https://yq.aliyun.com/articles/278922
• cosmos db: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/08/azure-cosmos-db.html

Architecture / Stack

• https://stackshare.io/
• Facebook Architecture: https://www.quora.com/What-is-Facebooks-architecture-6
• system design calculation: http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/1/26/google-pro-tip-use-back-of-the-envelope-calculations-to-choo.html
• draw architecture diagram https://www.draw.io/
• web architecture 101 https://engineering.videoblocks.com/web-architecture-101-a3224e126947?ref=abhimanyu
• AI in infra: https://code.fb.com/data-infrastructure/spiral-self-tuning-services-via-real-time-machine-learning/
• https://github.com/xingshaocheng/architect-awesome
• google production env: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhTVVWzpc4Q
• https://soulmachine.gitbooks.io/system-design/content/cn/
• https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer
• configurator: https://code.fb.com/data-infrastructure/location-aware-distribution-configuring-servers-at-scale/

Super Computer / Quantum Computer

• https://www.top500.org/
• Quantum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg

ML/Math

• mf in python http://www.quuxlabs.com/blog/2010/09/matrix-factorization-a-simple-tutorial-and-implementation-in-python/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-negative_matrix_factorization
• calibration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibration_%28statistics%29#In_classification
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotonic_regression
• Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04938

Interview

• https://algorithmsdatascience.quora.com/Summary-of-some-Interview-questions
• https://www.springboard.com/blog/machine-learning-interview-questions/
• https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-interview-questions-to-evaluate-a-machine-learning-researcher
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/binary-tree-set-3-types-of-binary-tree/

Web

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

Links

• 12 Factor App: http://12factor.net/
• Improve website speed: https://developers.google.com/speed/
• Bit Twiddling Hacks: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#BitReverseObvious
• JavaScript Style Guide: https://github.com/airbnb/javascript
• free programming ebooks: http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
• The Java Virtual Machine Specification
• JSR 133(Java Memory Model) FAQ
• Companion webpage to the book "Mathematics for Machine Learning"
• High Performance Browser Networking
• Cloud Native Infrastructure
• NaN

Online Judge/Challenges

• http://www.javadeathmatch.com/
• https://www.checkmarx.com/

Github Repos

https://github.com/mr-mig/every-programmer-should-know https://github.com/mbeaudru/modern-js-cheatsheet

Versus

attributes vs vars vs properties https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7374748/whats-the-difference-between-a-python-property-and-attribute https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7969949/whats-the-difference-between-globals-locals-and-vars

Articles

A good read: Education of a Programmer https://hackernoon.com/education-of-a-programmer-aaecf2d35312

airbnb https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/building-services-at-airbnb-part-1-c4c1d8fa811b https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/building-services-at-airbnb-part-2-142be1c5d506 https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/reconciling-graphql-and-thrift-at-airbnb-a97e8d290712

serverless https://read.acloud.guru/six-months-of-serverless-lessons-learned-f6da86a73526 backend https://read.acloud.guru/why-do-you-care-so-much-about-your-backend-when-your-customers-dont-81f4e6433593

https://tech.instacart.com/implementing-hyperloglog-in-redshift-and-tableau-a62081c98e1c https://tech.instacart.com/scalability-tip-move-business-logic-out-of-db-c7740661b0ef

https://twitter.com/aleksbur/status/1002448211255152641?s=11

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/the-site-reliability/9781492029496/

Internet Scale Services Checklist: https://gist.github.com/padajo/c4b5fde1b682aca43dc2a56366653b19

Share Nothing Architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_nothing_architecture

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13892581

Distributed Lock Manager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_lock_manager

Shadow Paging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_paging

• Scaling a Web Service: Load Balancing

https://hackernoon.com/a-url-shortener-service-using-go-iris-and-bolt-4182f0b00ae7

http://blog.gainlo.co http://horicky.blogspot.com https://www.hiredintech.com/classrooms/system-design/lesson/52 http://www.lecloud.net/tagged/scalability http://tutorials.jenkov.com/software-architecture/index.html http://highscalability.com/

https://brandur.org/cloud-databases https://brandur.org/aws-intrinsic-static

DiskIO:

• part 3: https://medium.com/@ifesdjeen/on-disk-io-part-3-lsm-trees-8b2da218496f
• part 4:https://medium.com/@ifesdjeen/on-disk-storage-part-4-b-trees-30791060741

COST in the land of databases https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2017-09-23.md

Unicorn Search(Facebook) https://research.fb.com/publications/unicorn-a-system-for-searching-the-social-graph/

http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/12/11/netflix-what-happens-when-you-press-play.html

Blogs

• High Scalability
• All Things Distributedhttp://www.allthingsdistributed.com/)
• Jepsen: testing distributed systems
• Metadata
• Scalable Startup
• https://brandur.org

Company’s Official Engineering Blog

• Google Research Blog
• Google Big Data Blog
• Facebook
• Uber
• Lyft
• Pinterest
• Twitter
• Airbnb
• Netflix
• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• Quora
• Yelp
• Square
• Dropbox
• Yammer
• Etsy
• Foursquare
• Cloudera
• WebEngage
• BankSimple
• SoundCloud
• Flickr
• Instagram
• Bandcamp
• Oyster
• REDDIT
• Groupn
• Songkick
• Twilio
• Bitly
• Godaddy
• Wayfair

Tools and Frameworks

• MapReduce
• Bigtable
• Dynamo Paper
• Dynamo
• Memcached
• Cassandra
• HBase
• MongoDB
• Redis
• Storm
• Zookeeper
• Kafka
• The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems
• The Google File System

• Dremel
• Megastore
• Spanner
• Photon
• Mesa

Real World Architecture

• YouTube
• Pinterest
• Google
• Twitter
• WhatsApp
• Flickr
• Amazon
• Stack Overflow
• Pinterest
• Tumblr
• Instagram
• TripAdvisor
• Scaling Mailbox
• Salesforce
• ESPN
• Uber
• DropBox
• AirBnB Machine Learning
• facebook database automation: https://code.facebook.com/posts/180455938822278/under-the-hood-mysql-pool-scanner-mps-/

High Level Discussion

• [Harvest, Yield and Scalable Tolerant Systems](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=2C771DC6FD1CD96C9BA324EDD5A9C233?doi=10.1.1.33 .411&rep=rep1&type=pdf)
• On Designing and Deploying Internet Scale Services
• The Perils of Good Abstractions
• Latency Exists, Cope!
• Latency: The New Web Performance Bottleneck
• Chaotic Perspectives
• Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside
• Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
• Discipline and Focus
• A Conversation with Werner Vogels
• Scalability
• Data Management for Internet-Scale Single-Sign-On
• [Large-scale Incremental Processing Using Distributed Transactions and Notifications](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google .com/en//pubs/archive/36726.pdf)
• CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed
• Consistency vs. availability: eventual consistency by Werner Vogels
• Eventually Consistent
• Avoiding Two Phase Commit, Redux
• 2PC or not 2PC, Wherefore Art Thou XA?
• Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit
• You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance
• Scalable agreement: Toward ordering as a service
• Scalable Eventually Consistent Counters over Unreliable Networks
• The key to synchronizing clocks over networks is taming delay variability.
• Consistent Hashing and Random Trees
• CDN

Consensus

• The Part-Time Parliament
• Paxos Made Simple
• Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective
• How to Build a Highly Available System Using Consensus
• Recon guring a State Machine

Wiki Pages

• Fallacies of distributed computing

Links

• https://github.com/neo4j
• https://github.com/elastic
• http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/
• http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/patterns/messaging/toc.html
• https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-prepare-to-answer-design-questions-in-a-technical-interview?redirected_qid=1500023
• http://www.hiredintech.com/system-design
• http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2884038
• http://blog.cloudera.com/
• http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
• http://rango.swoole.com/archives/381
• http://blog.sina.com.cn/yfx416

Data Cleaner's Cookbook

http://www.datafix.com.au/cookbook/

Non-tech

• Personal finance for engineers https://cs007.blog/

Books

• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
• Head First Design Patterns
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
• Rework
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• The Art of Computer Programming
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• The Little Schemer
• The Seasoned Schemer
• Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
• Domain-Driven Design
• The Design of Everyday Things
• Modern C++ Design
• The Best Software Writing I
• The Practice of Programming
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
• Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
• The Passionate Programmer
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
• Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
• Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application
• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C
• The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
• Refactoring to Patterns
• Modern Operating Systems
• The Deadline: A Novel about Project Management
• The C++ Programming Language
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
• Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C
• Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
• Object Thinking
• Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
• The Soul of A New Machine
• The Timeless Way of Building
• About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
• Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
• The Tao of Programming
• The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
• Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications
• Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond
• Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages
• The Productive Programmer
• The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
• How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
• Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation
• Introduction to Functional Programming
• No Bugs!: Delivering Error Free Code in C and C++
• The Non-Designer's Design Book
• Universal Principles of Design