A collection of books/blog posts/papers/etc. that I enjoy reading. You may find them interesting as well.

CURRENTLY READING

• Growth From Microorganisms to Megacities
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

LOG

PAPERS

• Your Server as a Function (Paper on Finagle)
• Functional Pearl: A SQL to C Compiler in 500 Lines of Code
• Earlybird: Real-Time Search at Twitter
• A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
• Druid
• Scalable Component Abstractions
• Twitter Heron
• Budget Pacing for Targeted Online Advertisements at LinkedIn
• The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Online Experimentation Platform

BLOG POSTS

• Coroutine Theory
• How To Get Better At One Thing In One Month
• YC’s Essential Startup Advice
• Data Compression in Druid
• 20 Questions To Ask Before Joining A Startup
• The Complete Guide to Deep Work
• A Complete Guide to K-Nearest-Neighbors with Applications in Python and R
• Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with real-time collaboration

BOOKS

• Category Theory for Programmers
• Fooled by Randomness
• Megatech: Technology in 2050
• The Art of War
• Algorithms to Live by
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• Game Programming Patterns
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
• The Making of Prince of Persia
• BPF Performance Tools
• The truthful art
• Dune
• The Big Score
• Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing

TO-READ

PAPERS

• Auctions and bidding: A guide for computer scientists
• Modern B-Tree Techniques
• Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook
• f4: Facebook’s Warm BLOB Storage System
• Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt
• A New Optimization Layer for Real-Time Bidding Advertising Campaigns
• Leapfrog Triejoin
• Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of sodware errors
• Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System

BLOG POSTS

• Using Bitmaps to Perform Range Queries

BOOKS

• Algorithmic Game Theory
• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
• Open Music Theory
• Mathematics for Machine Learning