External resources

Here are some links to great resources that have tranformed my thinking. I also have a list of recommended books if you have a little more time on your hands.

Methodology

• When agile is the wrong choice for your organization

• The Definitive Guide to Google Snippets

• The Science Behind Why Jeff Bezos’s Two-Pizza Team Rule Works

• Becoming a 10x developer

• On mapping and the evolution axis

• GCHQ’s Boiling Frogs research paper

• Dickerson’s Hierarchy of Service Reliability

Operating System Internals

• Ops Class

• Anything Brendan Gregg has written, ever

• Optimizing Non-Sequential Independent Loads with Software Prefetching

• TCMalloc

Go lang

• Go functions in assembly language

• Go’s work-stealing scheduler

• Effects of CPU caches

• Go internals

• Go memory management

CS Papers

• In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm

• ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems

• Condition Variables

• High Performance Microprocessors

• Consistent Hashing and Random Trees

• Monadic Parser Combinators

Interviewing

• Interviewing for System Design Skills