@@ -353,10 +357,14 @@ There are some free books available, including:
- [Engineers Do Not Get To Make Startup Mistakes When They Build Ledgers](https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/engineers-do-not-get-to-make-startup)
### Agentic coding
- [Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder](https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/anatomy-of-the-claude-folder)
### Algorithm and data structures
- Read the [CLRS](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms). You can watch and download the course on [OCW](http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-046j-introduction-to-algorithms-sma-5503-fall-2005/) - there are newer courses as well.
- Or [The Algorithm Design Manual](https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/dp/1849967202?ie=UTF8&qid=1297127794&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1)
- Or [The Algorithm Design Manual](https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/dp/1849967202?ie=UTF8&qid=1297127794&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1) (Skiena)
- Try out some algorithms on [Project Euler](https://projecteuler.net/)
- [CS 61B Spring 2023](https://sp23.datastructur.es/)
@@ -364,7 +372,7 @@ Other resources:
- [Algorithms](http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/), Jeff Erickson
Let's be honest: algorithms can be a pretty dry topic. [This quora question](https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-book-that-teaches-algorithms-data-structures-and-other-computer-science-basics-in-a-fun-way) lists some funnier learning alternative, including:
Here are some useful & interesting algo & DS visualizations:
@@ -545,7 +554,7 @@ Biases don't only apply to hiring. For instance, the fundamental attribution bia
### Career growth
- [The Conjoined Triangles of Senior-Level Development](http://frontside.io/blog/2016/07/07/the-conjoined-triangles-of-senior-level-development.html) looks into how to define a senior engineer.
- [The Conjoined Triangles of Senior-Level Development](https://frontside.com/blog/2016-07-07-the-conjoined-triangles-of-senior-level-development) looks into how to define a senior engineer.
- [Ten Principles for Growth as an Engineer](https://medium.com/@daniel.heller/ten-principles-for-growth-69015e08c35b), Dan Heller.
- [Don't Call Yourself a Programmer](https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/), Patrick McKenzie.
- [On being an Engineering Manager](https://nickmchardy.com/2019/02/on-being-an-engineering-manager.html)
@@ -614,6 +623,8 @@ Biases don't only apply to hiring. For instance, the fundamental attribution bia
- "Good politics is just being strategic about relationships and influence in the service of good outcomes."
- Examples: building relationships before you need them, understanding the incentives, managing up effectively, creating win-win situation, being visible.
- "The alternative to good politics isn’t no politics. It’s bad politics winning by default. It’s the loud person who’s wrong getting their way because the quiet person who’s right won’t speak up."
- [21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google](https://addyo.substack.com/p/21-lessons-from-14-years-at-google)
- [Publishing your work increases your luck](https://github.com/readme/guides/publishing-your-work)
About senior engineers:
@@ -748,20 +759,24 @@ See also the SQL section.
- [A plain English introduction to CAP Theorem](http://ksat.me/a-plain-english-introduction-to-cap-theorem)
- [PACELC theorem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACELC_theorem): "in case of network partitioning (P) in a distributed computer system, one has to choose between availability (A) and consistency (C) (as per the CAP theorem), but else (E), even when the system is running normally in the absence of partitions, one has to choose between latency (L) and consistency (C)."
- [Zero downtime database migrations](https://blog.rainforestqa.com/2014-06-27-zero-downtime-database-migrations/) (code examples are using Rails but this works great for any programming language)
- [Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems](https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3220266), ACM Queue
- [Let's Build a Simple Database](https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/)
- [Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition](http://www.redbook.io/)
- [Comparing database types: how database types evolved to meet different needs](https://dataguide.prisma.io/intro/comparing-database-types)
- [How does a relational database work](http://coding-geek.com/how-databases-work/)
- [Use the index, Luke](https://use-the-index-luke.com/)
- [Course introduction — MySQL for Developers](https://planetscale.com/learn/courses/mysql-for-developers/introduction/course-introduction), PlanetScale
- [Why you should probably be using SQLite | Epic Web Dev](https://www.epicweb.dev/why-you-should-probably-be-using-sqlite)
Scaling databases:
- [How Figma's Databases Team Lived to Tell the Scale](https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-databases-team-lived-to-tell-the-scale/): interesting story about sharding
- Domain-based: the solution domain models the problem domain in language and structure
- [Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity](https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/)
> “Simplicity is a great virtue, but it requires hard work to achieve and education to appreciate. And to make matters worse, complexity sells better.”
> — Edsger Dijkstra
> You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
@@ -1142,6 +1167,10 @@ Practice:
- [8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know](https://posthog.com/blog/ab-testing-mistakes)
### Fonts
- [GitHub Monaspace Case Study](https://lettermatic.com/custom/monaspace-case-study)
@@ -1295,6 +1328,7 @@ Note: this is about you as an interviewee, **not** as an interviewer. To check o
- [Preparing for the Systems Design and Coding Interview](https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/preparing-for-the-systems-design-and-coding-interviews/), Gergely Orosz
- [What I Learned from Doing 60+ Technical Interviews in 30 Days](https://meekg33k.dev/what-i-learned-from-doing-60-technical-interviews-in-30-days)
- [System Design Interview Guide for Senior Engineers](https://interviewing.io/guides/system-design-interview), interviewing.io
- [noamseg/interview-coach-skill](https://github.com/noamseg/interview-coach-skill): a Claude Code-based interview coach
Questions you should ask:
@@ -1481,6 +1515,7 @@ Richard Feynman's Learning Strategy:
- [Transformers from Scratch](https://e2eml.school/transformers.html)
- [A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks](https://distill.pub/2021/gnn-intro/)
- [The Math Behind Artificial Intelligence](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-math-behind-artificial-intelligence-book) - Tiago Monteiro. Covers linear algebra, calculus, probability, and optimization theory in the context of AI and machine learning.
- [The Audit Log Wall of Shame](https://audit-logs.tax/): list of vendors that don’t prioritize high-quality, widely-available audit logs for security and operations teams.
- [Guide on Structured Logs](https://signoz.io/blog/structured-logs/)
- [What an error log level should mean](https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ErrorsShouldRequireFixing)
- [Logging Sucks - Your Logs Are Lying To You](https://loggingsucks.com/)
- [Errors, Errors Everywhere: How We Centralized and Structured Error Handling](https://olivernguyen.io/w/namespace.error/) (for Go, but useful for any languages)
- For inspiration: [Handle Errors - Graph API](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/guides/error-handling#receiving-errorcodes)
- [The Error Model](https://joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/), Joe Duffy, 2016.
- [The Product-Minded Engineer: The importance of good errors and warnings](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-product-minded-engineer?publication_id=458709&r=4qowh)
- [Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust](https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/): a great way to learn about measuring performance.
@@ -62,3 +62,4 @@ Image from https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap
- [leonardomso/33-js-concepts](https://github.com/leonardomso/33-js-concepts): 33 JavaScript concepts every developer should know.
- [The Modern JavaScript Tutorial](https://javascript.info/)
- [A slightly sarcastic history of frontend](https://app.daily.dev/posts/a-slightly-sarcastic-history-of-frontend-1ohcpd7uq)
- [gibbok/typescript-book: The Concise TypeScript Book: A Concise Guide to Effective Development in TypeScript. Free and Open Source.](https://github.com/gibbok/typescript-book)
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