Weekly Bullet #39 – Summary for the week

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Technical :

AI-Powered Search and Chat for AWS Docs. The best way of consuming AWS docs. — link here
A Framework for Thinking About Systems Change – link here
BookWyrm – Yet another attempt on building a social media based on book. link here
- git repo for the same – bookwyrm
- Built by Mouse Reeve – https://github.com/mouse-reeve
- a lovely side project from Mouse Reeve on building Maps – Youtube link
Applying new hardware advancements and benchmarking variants of old databases — link here
- Cost per Gigabyte on RAM is much lower now than it used to be decade ago.
- Alternative approaches considered:log-less databases, single-threaded databases, and transaction-less databases, for certain use cases.
I have been re-reading the very famous book “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” by Martin Kleppmann. I am publishing my notes and extracts from the book — link here

Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems — link here
With “Openhimer” being released past week, did you notice a common theme across Nolan’s movies? — Tweet here
How to Do Great Work? – Paul Graham – link here
- This is “The Best” longform article that I have read in years. Below are a few extracts from the same:
- “The way to figure out what to work on is by working. If you’re not sure what to work on, guess. But pick something and get going.“
  “Develop a habit of working on your own projects. Don’t let “work” mean something other people tell you to do.”
  “When in doubt, optimize for interestingness. But a field should become increasingly interesting as you learn more about it.”
  “People who do great work are not necessarily happier than everyone else, but they’re happier than they’d be if they didn’t.”

Cheers until next time !