Foundational Learning Plan

Operating Systems

• Book
  Operating Systems - Three Easy Pieces
• Book
  Linux Kernel Development
• Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?
• Book
  Systems Performance - Enterprise and the Cloud

Distributed Systems

• Book
  Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• Read aphyr/distsys-class (notes)
• MOOC
  MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems
• DynamoDB Paper (2022)
• A Distributed Systems Reading List
• Testing Distributed Systems
• https://github.com/theanalyst/awesome-distributed-systems
• Blog posts from http://www.bailis.org/blog
• Papers
  • Paper
    The Tail at Scale
  • Paper
    Consistent hashing and random trees
  • Paper
    Spanner — Google’s Globally-Distributed Database
  • Chain Replication
  • Amazon Dynamo (Leaderless, not DynamoDB)
  • Amazon Aurora: On Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, and Membership Changes
  • Building on Quicksand
  • Life beyond distributed transactions
  • CockroachDB
  • Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes
• Talks
  • Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood
  • Distributed transaction architectures
  • AWS Lambda Under the Hood
  • How to Take Control of Systems, Big & Small
  • The Functional Database
• Watch Kleppmann’s lectures (~7h in total)

Computer Architecture

• Computer Systems - A Programmer’s Perspective
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (notes so far)

Networking

• Implementing TCP in Rust
• Linux Programming Interface: the IPC Chapters
• Book
  TCPIP Illustrated, Vol 1
• Beej’s Guide: Networks
• Beej’s Guide: IPC
• High Performance Browser Networking