Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.
Technical :
- It is December and Advent of code is here. What is Advent of code ? – link here. An old podcast on Spotify’s Engineering team geeking out every December on AOC – link here
- [A talk – 31mins ] – Concurrency is not Parallelism – “Concurrency is about dealing with lots of things at once. Parallelism is about doing lots of things at once.” – YouTube
- Observability is all about Metrics, Events, Logs and Traces [MELT]. The four core metrics types explained in detail here
- From P99 Performance conference for 2022 – the power of eBPF for performance insights — link here
- [Book]: Opentelemetry is the second most active CNCF project, next to K8. Opentelemetry is the next standard for implementing vendor agnostic observability into any application. Below is a great report on the same.
Non-Technical :
- The perks of High Documentation, Low Meetings work culture – link here
- Richard Feynman’s way of taking pressure off yourself and doing something for the fun of it. – link here
- [Documentary – 40mins] – The speed cubers on netflix – link here
- Which books have made you a better thinker and problem solver? – some great recommendations here
- An extract from a book:
How we tend to view the worst events in History? We tend to assume that the worst that has happened is the worst that can happen, and then prepare for that.
The Great Mental models, Shane Parrish
We forget that “the worst” smashed a previous understanding of what was the worst. Therefore, we need to prepare more for the extremes allowable by physics rather that what has happened until now.
Cheers, until next time!
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