Awesome blog posts

These are blog posts I read over the years. Some of them explain concepts in a way that’s easy to understand. Some discuss common pitfalls/misunderstandings which are helpful for a newbie. There are also some blogs that I like to read. They either have witty or neat content.

Algorithms & Data Structure

• Count min sketch
• HyperLogLog

Linux

• systemd by example

Computer Networking

• How NAT traversal works
• How CDN works
• Shortest URLs on the Internet
• HTTP Meme Okay, this is not awesome, it’s just a product by me :))
• OSI Model
• Why TCP needs 3 handshakes

Programming

• Explaining dynamic programming to a 4 year old
• SOLID
• How to design a delayed scheduler in Java?
• Load Balancing
• Monorepo
• 5000x faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization

Kafka

• A gentle introduction to Apache Kafka

Docker & Kubernetes

• 10 Myths About Docker That Stop Developers Cold
• The What, Why and How of Containers
• A skeptic’s first contact with Kubernetes

Spring Boot

• Why field injection is evil

Git

• How to Write a Git Commit Message
• CHERRY-PICKING SPECIFIC COMMITS FROM ANOTHER BRANCH
• 89 things I know about Git commits

Distributed System

• Paxos
• Raft
• Learning about distributed systems: where to start?
• Microservices 101: Transactional Outbox and Inbox
• Erasure Coding for Distributed Systems

Web

• CSS Grid

Security

• Diffie-Hellman key exchange
• Reverse Engineering For Everyone!

Hardware

• Everything I know about SSDs
• Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment
• Exploring How Cache Memory Really Works
• Making USB devices - end to end guide to your first gadget

Database

• Implementing MVCC and major SQL transaction isolation levels
• Let’s Build a Simple Database
• Build Redis from scratch
• B-trees and database indexes

Others

• Inside browser
• Using Fibonacci Numbers to Convert from Miles to Kilometers and Vice Versa

Blogs

• wizard zines : Explaining programming concepts in a comical way
• Lam Do : Tips and guides for preparing and conducting interview
• Alex Xu : Explain complex systems with simple terms
• Ivan Velichko : Network, Docker, Cloud Native learning materials in drawings
• CPU land : Putting the “You” in CPU
• Exactly Once : On distributed systems
• Google testing : Testing at Google
• Bits about Money : Tech, finance, and the wonky geekery that underlies the modern world

(To be updated…)