Growth Mindset

The harder a task or an undertaking is, the more I stand to grow as a result of doing it — even if I don’t do it perfectly.

Favourites/Recommended Reads

• How to Grow as an Engineer (Working Remotely)

• You Are Not Paid to Write Code

• Succeeding Remotely

• Working remotely, 4 years in

• The Stress of Remote Working

• How to understand any programming task

• The world beyond batch: Streaming 101

• The world beyond batch: Streaming 102

• Events As First-Class Citizens

• Building consumer-facing websites with multiple teams

• What nobody tells you about documentation

• Scala’s Types of Types

• Functional Data Structures

• Functional Programming for Mortals

• SIGMOD 2018 Accepted Papers

• Spark performance tuning from the trenches

• Tuning Java Garbage Collection for Apache Spark Applications

• Monitoring in the time of Cloud Native

• Testing in Production, the safe way

• Testing Microservices, the sane way

• Envoy

• Health Checks and Graceful Degradation in Distributed Systems

• Monitoring and Observability

• Logs and Metrics

• sbt - A task engine

• sbt - A declarative DSL

• JVM Internals

• Java Memory and CPU Monitoring Tools and Techniques

• HOW TO TAKE THREAD DUMPS? – 8 OPTIONS

• Useful JVM Flags – Part 8 (GC Logging)

• All the things we can do with JMX

• SPEEDING UP COMPILATION TIME WITH SCALAC-PROFILING

• Profiling JVM applications

• Deep Dive: Performance Tuning in Production

• Profilers are lying hobbitses

• Data Processing Resources: Command-line Interface (CLI) for CSV, TSV, JSON, and XML

• Monitoring Isn't Observability

• Making your Akka Streams robust

• Online reconstruction of structural information from datacenter logs

• Canopy: an end-to-end performance tracing and analysis system

• My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container

• MacroBase: Analytic Monitoring for the Internet of Things

• Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside

• The Case for Learned Index Structures

• Tail attacks on web applications

• How does Ethereum work, anyway?

• Design Patterns in API Gateways and Microservices

• Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax

• Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures

• Azure DevOps Postmortem: VSTS 4 September 2018

• Customized regression model for Airbnb dynamic pricing

• Lessons learned from moving my side project to Kubernetes

• I know you’ll be back: interpretable new user clustering and churn prediction on a mobile social application

• IO & Logging Capabilities

• Elevator Control System using ZIO

• Writing a Daytime Server with Akka Streams

• Model correctly and write less code, using Akka Streams

• Lightweight docker containers for Scala apps

• Integrating Akka Streams and Akka Actors: Part I

• Integrating Akka Streams and Akka Actors: Part II

• Integrating Akka Streams and Akka Actors: Part III

• Integrating Akka Streams and Akka Actors: Part IV

• Partitioning Akka Streams to Maximize Throughput

• Partitioning Akka Streams for Scalability and High-Availability

• Patterns for Streaming Measurement Data with Akka Streams

• Maximizing Throughput for Akka Streams

• Backoff and Retry Error-Handling for Akka Streams

• Performance Considerations for Akka Debug Logging

• Architecting Massively-Scalable Near-Real-Time Risk Analysis Solutions

• Real Time analytics for Big Data: Facebook's New Realtime Analytics System

• Real Time Analytics for Big Data: An Alternative Approach

• An introduction to friction logging

• Breaking the Monolith: An 8 Step Recipe

• Distributed Transactions are only Eventually Consistent

• socat

• I’m Leaving Google — Here’s the Real Deal Behind Google Cloud

• 5 Easy Steps to Understanding JSON Web Tokens (JWT)

• Istio Routing Basics

• REST is the new SOAP

• Here’s my follow-up to REST is the new SOAP: let’s talk about the Original REST

• Kubernetes Liveness and Readiness Probes: How to Avoid Shooting Yourself in the Foot

• No Magic: Regular Expressions

• How Does a Database Work?

• Let's code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet & ARP

• Baby's First Garbage Collector

• Build Your Own Text Editor

• Implementing a Key-Value Store

• Creating a JVM Language

• Game-Server-with-Scala-and-Akka-Streams

• Akka Streams pitfalls to avoid — part 1

• Akka Streams pitfalls to avoid — part 2

• Scala compiler phases with pictures

• From Monolith to Microservice Architecture on Kubernetes, part 1 — The Api Gateway

• Data Processing Resources: Command-line Interface (CLI) for CSV, TSV, JSON, and XML

• The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction

• What is a distributed systems engineer?

• Distributed Systems in One

• For: What is it good for?

• Options in Futures, how to unsuck them

• Essential Software Tools for Developing Operational Technologies

Cassandra

• https://anant.github.io/awesome-cassandra/
• Building a Streaming Data Hub with Elasticsearch, Kafka and Cassandra
• Using Apache Cassandra — A few things before you start
• Cassandra Schemas for Beginners (like me)
• Real-Time Replication from MySQL to Cassandra
• Basic Rules of Cassandra Data Modeling
• Common Problems in Cassandra Data Models
• Cassandra Time Series Data Modeling For Massive Scale
• The Gossip Protocol - Inside Apache Cassandra.
• Introduction To The Apache Cassandra 3.x Storage Engine
• Dropping columns in Apache Cassandra 3.0
• Hinted Handoff and GC Grace Demystified
• Deletes and Tombstones
• About Deletes and Tombstones in Cassandra
• Null bindings on prepared statements and undesired tombstone creation
• Undetectable tombstones in Apache Cassandra
• Common Problems with Cassandra Tombstones
• The Curious Case Of Tombstones
• Understanding the Nuance of Compaction in Apache Cassandra
• Guide To Cassandra Thread Pools
• How to monitor Cassandra performance metrics
• Cassandra metrics and their use in Grafana
• Monitoring Cassandra with Prometheus
• Monitoring Cassandra With Grafana And Influx DB
• Cassandra Monitoring - part I - Introduction
• Cassandra Monitoring - part II - Graphite/InfluxDB & Grafana on Docker
• Running commands cluster-wide without any management tool
• Bootstrapping Apache Cassandra Nodes
• Node Replacement without Bootstrapping
• Cassandra Backup and Restore - Backup in AWS using EBS Volumes
• The LIMIT clause in Apache Cassandra might not work as you think
• Cassandra Summit Recap: Diagnosing Problems in Production
• A Deeper Dive - Diagnosing DSE Performance Issues with Ttop and Multidump
• My Cassandra 2.0 Diagnostics Checklist (Brain Dump)
• Tuning Java resources
• Move Cassandra 2.1 to G1 garbage collector
• Amy's Cassandra 2.1 tuning guide
• Secret HotSpot option improving GC pauses on large heaps
• Tuning Java resources
• Analyzing Cassandra Performance with Flame Graphs
• Garbage Collection Tuning for Apache Cassandra
• Cassandra Node Diagnostics Tools
• TWCS part 1 - how does it work and when should you use it ?
• Performing User Defined Compactions in Apache Cassandra
• Graphing cassandra-stress
• Modeling real life workloads with cassandra-stress is hard
• Securing Apache Cassandra with Application Level Encryption
• Hardening Cassandra Step by Step - Part 1 Inter-Node Encryption (And a Gentle Intro to Certificates)
• Docker Meet Cassandra. Cassandra Meet Docker.
• How To Setup A Highly Available Multi-AZ Cassandra Cluster On AWS EC2

Kubernetes.

• RUNNING JVMS IN KUBERNETES
• From Monolith to Microservice Architecture on Kubernetes, part 1 — The Api Gateway
• Kubernetes Learning Resources
• gRPC Load Balancing on Kubernetes without Tears
• Kubernetes the hard way
• Kubernetes in Action
• Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure
• etcdctl
• Everything you ever wanted to know about using etcd with Kubernetes v1.6 (but were afraid to ask)
• Racy conntrack and DNS lookup timeouts
• Cloud Native Engineering
• Fundamentals of Containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift
• Running akka-cluster on Kubernetes
• Learn Kubernetes in Under 3 Hours: A Detailed Guide to Orchestrating Containers
• Kubernetes pods /etc/resolv.conf ndots:5 option and why it may negatively affect your application performances
• Kubernetes Best Practices
• CKA Exam Experience and some useful Tips
• CKA Exam Prep
• How Heptio Engineers Ace the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam
• cka-practice-environment
• certified_kubernetes_administrator_exam_curriculum
• Unofficial 'CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator' Exam Curriculum 1.9 Self-Assessment
• CKAD-exercises
• A reason for unexplained connection timeouts on Kubernetes/Docker
• DNS lookups on Kubernetes?
• Log aggregation with ElasticSearch, Fluentd and Kibana stack on ARM64 Kubernetes cluster
• Distributed Tracing Infrastructure with Jaeger on Kubernetes
• Pods are not recreated after kubernetes node failure
• Kubernetes 202 — Making It Fully Operational

Rust

• Let's build a browser engine!
• How Browsers Work: Behind the scenes of modern web browsers
• Build Your Own Shell using Rust
• Let's code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet & ARP
• Building a DNS server in Rust
• Rust in Detail: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
• Welcome to Rust-101
• Writing an OS in Rust
• Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists
• Kick the Tires - Rust Crash Course lesson 1
• https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/index.html
• rustlings
• Elegant Library APIs in Rust
• Understanding Rust Lifetimes

Monitoring.

• Pillars of Observability
• Tracing, tracing, tracing in your applications (illustrated!)
• Scaling @ HelloFresh: Distributed Tracing
• Dapper, A Large Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure
• The Morning Paper on Operability
• The Mystery Machine: End-to-end performance analysis of large-scale internet services
• Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems
• Online reconstruction of structural information from datacenter logs
• Canopy: an end-to-end performance tracing and analysis system
• Towards Turnkey Distributed Tracing
• Open Tracing Journey
• Evolving Distributed Tracing at Uber Engineering
• Distributed tracing in practice
• The difference between tracing, tracing, and tracing
• Distributed Tracing and its place in the monitoring landscape
• Monitoring distributed traces
• Why is Distributed Tracing Broken?
• AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing
• Performance is a shape, not a number
• Deep Distributed Tracing with OpenTracing and the JDK Flight Recorder
• Java vs. Native Agents – And How It Affects Your Code
• JVM Architecture 101: Get to Know Your Virtual Machine
• Java Memory and CPU Monitoring Tools and Techniques
• All the things we can do with JMX
• Dapper, A Large Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure