inspiration

Here is a list of content which I have found interesting, inspiring, and relevant.

Management and Organziational Efficiency

• Open Decision Framework
• Open Source Guides
• Ways Groups Can Stifle Creativity
• Holman on Firing People
• Lessons Scaling from 10 to 20 People

System / Network Design

• Github Load Balancer
• MySQL Innodb HA Cluster
• Failure, at Scale
• Readability vs Correctness

Dealing with Tech Debt

• How we refactored 3 millions lines of code - build tools to solve your problems
• Technical Wealth
• The Art of Destroying Software

Bugs

• Performance Bugs
• Facebooks Code Quality Problem
• C++ memory allocation

Docker Specific

• Not ready for Prime Time - swarm cluster lost consensus - not ready for production - this stuff is hard.
• Dockerize what makes sense
• It’s the Future

Caitie M’s “The Verification of Distributed Systems

• The ACM Paper
• Slides
• Github Repo

Security

• Guide to User Data Security
• CIA DOs and DONTs of Malware Development
• Protonmail One-Password Login Architecture and SRP
• Keybase merkle root in BTC Blockchain

Crypto

• Qubes Verifying Signatures

Failure and Post Mortems

• Huge Network Failure at Google
• Minimizing the Impact of Failure

Ethics and Building a Better World

• The Internet is Fundamentally Flawed
• Is Facebook a Structural Threat to a Free Society?
• Addressing the Economic Risks of Automation
• Eric Hughes Cypherpunk Manifesto, March ’93
• Empowerment, Vanessa Florence

Haskell

• Lists, don’t use them

Scaling

• Complexity / Performance Trade-Offs
• Reduce AWS Costs while Scaling
• Seamless Reloads (haproxy)

Learning

• Learning without a Mentor

Unsorted

• what is SRE - https://landing.google.com/sre/interview/ben-treynor.html
• https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-things-you-wish-you-knew-when-you-started-programming/answer/Ken-Mazaika?share=1
• http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/21/i-want-to-run-stateful-containers-too/
• http://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2015-the-seven-righteous-fights
• http://www.robustperception.io/do-you-have-basic-infrastructure/
• http://githubengineering.com/githubs-metal-cloud/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service
• https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/02/andy-jassys-brief-history-of-the-genesis-of-aws/
• http://whilefalse.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-manager-as-debugger.html
• http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/10/12/making-the-case-for-building-scalable-stateful-services-in-t.html
• http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/04/29/applying-the-universal-scalability-law-to-organisations/
• http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/11/11/the-o-ring-theory-of-devops/ - “The pursuit of excellence is no longer optional. More precisely, the pursuit of excellence across the board in your IT processes and practices is no longer optional.”
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-consul-in-a-production-environment-on-ubuntu-14-04 - our consul salt formula does all of this, exposed as a “function” accepting a few “inputs”.
• https://medium.com/life-learning/your-life-is-tetris-stop-playing-it-like-chess-4baac6b2750d
• http://www.codeshare.co.uk/blog/10-golden-rules-for-becoming-a-better-programmer/
• http://netpatterns.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-rising-sophistication-of-network.html - there is some crazy stuff out there..
• http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1513451 - the falacy of “premature optimization”
• http://deep.design/design-like-an-astronaut/
• http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/01/29/no-happy-path-in-programming/
• https://engineering.canva.com/2015/08/25/how-we-get-things-done/
• https://docs.clusterhq.com/en/latest/docker-integration/configuring-authentication.html - automating all the things can get hairy..
• https://medium.com/vijay-pandurangan/linux-kernel-bug-delivers-corrupt-tcp-ip-data-to-mesos-kubernetes-docker-containers-4986f88f7a19 - operations reality: add containers, add complexity, add bugs
• http://www.sciencealert.com/bacterial-cells-are-actually-the-world-s-smallest-eyeballs-scientists-discover-by-accident - yea, wow. there is the holonic nature of reality.
• https://deis.com/blog/2016/paas-continuous-integration-deployment
• http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/03/10-lessons-from-10-years-of-aws.html
• http://www.morethanseven.net/2015/12/27/operations-more-than-systems-administration/
• https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/readings/robust-systems.pdf - AWESOME!
• https://deis.com/blog/2016/continuous-deployment-helm-deis-workflow-wercker/ - need to do so much! kube as a pre-req…
• http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/06/netflix-billing-migration-to-aws.html
• https://www.mirantis.com/blog/infrastructure-software-is-dead/
• https://blog.containership.io/containers-vs-config-management-e64cbb744a94
• https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/25/the-01x-programmer/
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/3118345/cloud-computing/why-kubernetes-is-winning-the-container-war.html
• http://reginaldlong.com/how-i-went-from-failing-every-interview-to-a-job-at-amazon/
  • “Over time, I’ve learned that interviewing is a skill. If you treat interviewing like a skill, and not an inherent capability, then you have the agency to improve enough to get your dream tech job. It’s easy to lament the state of software engineering interviews, but it’s harder to accept it and create a plan for success. But would you rather complain and feel good about yourself or have a job?”
• https://kukulinski.com/10-most-common-reasons-kubernetes-deployments-fail-part-1/
• https://bencane.com/2016/03/22/self-managing-servers-with-masterless-saltstack-minions/

Other

• Information Avoidance - we immerse ourselves in the reality of our choice