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Weekly Bullet #42 – Summary for the week

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

The cost crisis in the observability space is a real problem. Here is an article that describes the issue: - link here
How many conferences are too many? Here is an exhaustive list of all the popular talks on Kubernetes from 2023: - link here
OpenTelemetry is the industry standard in observability. Here is a list of anti-patterns with observability to avoid:- link here

Weekly Bullet #41 – Summary for the week

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

System Design - Designing a Ticket Booking Site Like Ticketmaster is the most common system design question - link
UberEngineering blog on Anomaly detection and alerting system - link
P99 CONF 2023 | Always-on Profiling of All Linux Threads by Tanel Poder - YouTube link
On choosing Golang as a programming language at American Express- link

Weekly Bullet #40 – Summary for the week

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

The shortest and comprehensive System Design Template for any new service - link here
Kafka is one of the most efficiently built transient datastore. This article explains the compute and storage layers of kafka – link here
Consistent Hashing has helped solve Distributed System with:
- even shard distribution across nodes in cluster

Weekly Bullet #38 – Summary for the week

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

Don’t turn that Swap off yet. In defense of swap - common misconceptions. - link here
Why histogram and how are they useful. link here
- If you have used any of the monitoring or APM tools, you would have come across Histogram form of metric being emitter. This writeup give a brief on why Histogram.
S3 isn’t getting cheaper - link here

Weekly Bullet #37 – Summary for the week

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

A new book released on the hot eBPF - “Learning eBPF” by Liz Rice. This a summary form and a quick introduction to eBPF capabilities when compared to “BPF Performance tools” by Brendan Gregg.

To understand latency in detail - “Everything You Know About Latency Is Wrong” - link here

Weekly Bullet #35 – Summary for the week

Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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

Weekly Bullet #34 – Summary for the week

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

[Book-Recommendations]: Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry by Alex and Charity. (Side note: Half way through the book and learning a lot. )

Take away : Effective ways of adding metrics/traces in cloud native apps without marrying to any APM tools

A list of possible developer questions to consider asking a prospective employer. - github link
[Video]: Disk latency being directly proportional to vibrations (in other words, lets try shouting in data center!!) – 2min Video link
What is Redis explained - link here
Best Practices for Fixing your alerts in your service? (so that you can sleep well?) – link from newrelic here
The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions (debatable but interesting!) - link here

Non-Technical :

Second-order thinking: How to NOT create new problems while solving existing problems. - Link
[90mins] Podcast recommendation – The Knowledge Project : Insights for making better Decision – Spotify link
What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book ? (heartwarming!)– link
10 mental concepts for thinking better - Twitter thread
A quote that struck the right chords:

“So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look foolish in the short term.”

Weekly Bullet #33 – Summary for the week

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

A few interesting and hidden features of Python - link
Below are the BCP tools that can be used for digging in to Performance analysis of memory parameters on a Linux machine. More in BPF Performance Tools book by Brendan Gregg.

Book : BPF Performance Tools

How does Database indexing work? - here
How to get the most out of your 1:1s - here
At around 8-10years of experience, career branches in to either Engineering management or Technical Staff Engineer. Here are a few stories of Staff Engineers and their journey.
[Self-endorsement]: A tiny 50lines of code tool for getting my highlighted quotes from my Fav books - here

Non-Technical :

[Highly recommended]: First-principles thinking is a competitive advantage because almost no one does it. More here
The importance of annual health checkup - Seema’s True story of battling cancer - here
I always thought about a social platform but based on Books. Booqsi is trying to do the exact same. It is still in early beta though. More details here
A website that removes things from images in seconds- Magic Eraser
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: Book Summary - here
Podcast : Hugh Jackman - on Daily routine, intuition, meditation, decision making and more. link
A quote that the struck right chords:

“If you are not willing to take responsibility for your situation, you cannot use your situation as an excuse either.”

Weekly Bullet #32 – Summary for the week

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

Memory leaks on client side - the forgotten side of web performance. Link
A list of helpful patterns/commands on "_sed_" command - link
A “Streaming availability” api to lookup which show/movie is available in which OTT in 60+countries. Something to explore for a fun weekend project - link
You remember the times, when there are 10 terminal sessions opened on your system and you wanted to know “at what time did I run that command” ? Ya, article addresses the same problem - link
PS: If you use zsh, there a few themes which come in-built with this feature.
Wordle puzzles are crazy popular in the last week or so. Here is a python project to solve the puzzles. link

Non-Technical :

Completing part-time master’s in CS while on a full time job! This article was so inspiring also reminds, how much time we waste in general. - link
Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up. A fun site - link
Rocket engines, they deal with a lot of heat right? How come they don’t melt? Detailed geeky explanation - here
An interesting Thread on Human psychology fact. link
[Image below]: “Stop focusing on the black lines behind you. Start focusing on all of the green lines before you.”

Weekly Bullet #31 – Summary for the week

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

CPU utilization is wrong - PS : idle waits are counted in the %CPU.
Python : Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet
Finished coding, but waiting for PR to be review/approved ? - The Pull Request Paradox
Best practices can slow your application down - Best Practices vs Required Practices - link
Profiling and analyzing performance of Python programs - link
Also, since it is Monday:

Weekly Bullet #30 – Summary for the week

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

P99 CONF (centered around low-latency, high-performance design) recordings are available here

Python f-strings can do more than you thought. Video here
Web3 is not a hype. An article on what is Web3 and decentralized internet here. Also, a podcast by Tim Ferris with Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant – The Wonder of Web3.
Another one of those – “20 Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a Software Engineer.”
Most helpful sed one liners - here
How WhatsApp scaled to 1 billion users with only 50 Engineers. - here
The “Advent of code” will be live on December 1st. Here is some history about it. Discussion thread.

Non-Technical :

Traveling(rather walking) without money! Although old(1998) event, still shows world is not that bad of a place. Link “MY PENNILESS JOURNEY”
There was this mega-thread on twitter for “one book that changed the way you see the world”. - The consolidated list from the thread on BooksChatter here.
Matthew McConaughey addressing University of Houston outgoing students – “5 Rules for the life” (Rule #1 is my fav)
Extract from a book:

“If you think about the biographies you read or the documentaries you watch about the greats in various fields, this same pattern of Addictive, Passionate behavior surfaces. Jazz saxophone great John Coltrane reportedly practiced so much that his lips would bleed.”

Weekly Bullet #29 – Summary for the week

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

eBPF Summit is live now - Recording of the Keynote and live summit here

Conference talk - USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon by Brendan Gregg - here [video - 41mins]
A project for visualizing codebase - here
Self healing systems - the real end goal of observability - here
Python3 - Reverse Engineering Tips - here

Non-Technical :

Great article on - “How to think: The skill you’ve never been taught” - here
An addictive trading game in your browser - Paper trade - here
People no longer trust each other. Why? And how can we fix it? An interactive guide to the game theory of trust - here
What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life? - Thread link
Extract from a book:

“But we had two choices,” I said. “Throw our hands up in frustration and do nothing, or figure out how to most effectively operate within the constraints required of us. We chose the latter.

Weekly Bullet #27 – Summary for the week

Mon, 17 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

Different states of Java Threads and their transitions. - Link
A quick look into Sorting in python - RealPython site link (3mins)
DevOps in one picture:

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/devops/what-is-devops/

A cheat sheet to “When to use which collection in java” - here

source: http://www.sergiy.ca

A great talk on internals of List and Tuple in Python - YouTube (28mins)

Non-Technical :

A crisp explanation on Manager vs Director vs VP - link

Weekly Bullet #26 – Summary for the week

Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

“Performance checklist for SREs” - By Brendan Gregg at SREcon16 . YouTube link (1hr)
Resource list for Beginner to Pro in Python. Link
Navigation in IntelliJ IDEA - this could save so much time once all short cuts are know. YouTube link (8mins)
Monitoring SRE’s Golden Signals - The metrics that matter and the ones we absolutely need to monitor. Link
All The Important Features and Changes in Python 3.10. Link
“What makes a Great Software Engineer?” - An IEEE paper on non-technical qualities of a great Software Engineer. Link

Non-Technical :

[Highly Recommended] : Henry Rollins: The One Decision that Changed My Life Forever | Big Think - YouTube link (7mins)
Now that most of use working from home, here is mynoise.net for creating Quiet Animated Atmospheres. How to use - here
A great site for some fun riddles - here
Extract from a book :

“A professional is someone who may not have all the answers, but thoroughly studies their craft and seeks to hone their skills. A professional will freely admit when they don’t know the answer, but you can count on a professional to find it.”

Weekly Bullet #25 – Summary for the week

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

Amazon S3 on it’s 15th Birthday – It is Still Day 1 after 5,475 Days & 100 Trillion Objects. An article here.

A detailed Performance comparison of different programming languages / command-lines. Link here. (If you can’t read full article, go through the conclusion for insight)
The Amazon VP & CTO, Werner Vogels sits with Tom Killalea to discuss designing for evolution at scale. Article here.
ShortcutFoo is a site for spaced repetition of helpful shortcuts across tech stacks. Check it here.

Non-Technical :

Flamshot, an amazing multi-functional screenshot capturing tool. Check it here . Download link.
(Highly Recommended) : The context of “Why’s!” by Richard Feynman. Youtube link [Length - 7min]
Tim Ferriss podcast with Jordan Peterson(Canadian professor of psychology) as a guest. You can definitely learn new things here - link. [Youtube. Length - 1hr 20mins]
Extract from a book:

“One lesson I’ve learned is that if the job I do were easy, I wouldn’t derive so much satisfaction from it. The thrill of winning is in direct proportion to the effort I put in before. I also know, from long experience, that if you make an effort in training when you don’t especially feel like making it, the payoff is that you will win games when you are not feeling your best. That is how you win championships, that is what separates the great player from the merely good player. The difference lies in how well you’ve prepared.”

Weekly Bullet #24 – Summary for the week

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

An overview of iftop - a great network traffic visual tool. - here , also man page here
Rust is becoming one of the most loved languages. Here is an Illustrated Note about WTF is Rust - link
“How They SRE” - best practices, tools, techniques, and culture of SRE adopted by the leading technology or tech-savvy organizations.- link
A single stop to find all upcoming Tech conferences in 2021 - link
A wiki on Unix Toolbox with all the commands and tasks useful for daily dive in to linux world. - link
“Python Tricks I cannot live without” - link
I am sure most of you follow HackerNews. Here is a great tool built using FlameGraphs to navigate through big threads on HN. - Link1 , Link2

Non-Technical :

A cool site where you can select the part of the body and find the relevant stretches and exercises here
An extract from something I am reading:

“Almost universally, the kind of performance we give on social media is positive. It’s more “Let me tell you how well things are going. Look how great I am.” It’s rarely the truth: “I’m scared. I’m struggling. I don’t know.”

Weekly Bullet #23 – Summary for the week

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

BPF(Berkeley Packet Filter) has come a long way from just being a packet capture tool to advance Performance analysis tool (EBPF - Extended Berkeley Packet Filter). Here (link) is an introduction to EBPF. Also here (link) is a talk on how BPF is used at Netflix.

“Minimal safe Bash script template” - link . Because there is no such thing as “knowing enough of bash!”
Kelsey Hightower is an inspiration. A writeup on how he made it from McDonald’s to Google (link). [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED] –> : A talk he gave about his journey a few years back here (link)
[That time of the year!] : “Best talks of 2020” – link
[Late news!] If you didn’t hear it already, Github has Dark mode now. - link

Non-Technical :

[Another one] “Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2020?” - some great recommendations here - link . Personally for me, “Sapiens” widened my horizon about evolution of Human Beings.
“100 Tips for better life.” - link - I don’t agree with all of them, but most of these are thought provoking.
An extract from the book that I am reading.

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

Weekly Bullet #22 – Summary for the week

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

[Talk-Velocity 2017] : Performance Analysis Superpowers with Linux eBPF (44mins)- link
Popular Java Podcasts to follow in 2020 - link
Since we are taking about Podcasts, I have also heard good things about Barcode and ACM-ByteCast is amazing!
Illustration: Much that we have gotten wrong about SRE - link
A list of popular java libraries. - link
The second edition of “System Performance: Enterprise and Cloud” - by Brendan Gregg releasing on 2nd December. - link . This is “the best” reference guide for Performance Engineering.

Non-Technical :

“Library of Scroll” - Here is a site with one great article every Monday. Since it is just one, generally I find them very good. - link
Great site with short explanations of over 24 cognitive biases. Co-authored by Gabriel Weinberg who is the CEO of DuckDuckGo. - link
Not sure why I liked this, but this “57 Years Apart - A Boy And a Man Talk About Life” short video was quite gripping. - link
Soft skills for Software Engineers. Short thread. - link
Hand picked remote jobs from “Hacker News Who is hiring” November - link
Extract from a book:

“Respect an old tradition path as it is well tested, but also be open to the new modern way of things as they open up your mind.”

Weekly Bullet #21 – Summary for the week

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

Technical :

How to become a consultant ? Some good references and advices here. - link
Ever wondered How the prices vary on Amazon? Here is a classic example of algorithmically priced products on Amazon - link
If you are using O’Reilly (which I believe is the best technical content platform), you should check out O’Reilly Answers. For all your queries, O’Reilly looks through heap of books, video and conferences and gives you answers. - link (Note: You will need subscription)
In Firefox version 81, an experimental event delay tracker has been added. Details in the “Performance Tools” section of below article (old article dated August 31st). - link . Also example profile - link
An extensive collection of Bash pitfalls - link

Non-Technical :

As “Arguments” are a part of corporate jobs, here is a Beginner’s Guide to Arguing Constructively. - link
Expiring vs Permanent skills. Many would agree that these skills are more important than absolute technical skills. - link
Nokia is going to build a mobile network on Moon - link
If you are into living in small spaces and minimalism, you will love this youtube channel, “Never too small”. link . Also, my recent favorite - link
[Repost, because why not!] - This never gets old. Richard Feynman’s - “Names Don’t Constitute Knowledge” principle (2mins) - link
An extract from a book that I am reading:

Fooling with books so you can sound smart or have an intimidating library is like tending a garden to impress your neighbors.

Weekly Bullet #20 – Summary for the week

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All,

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

Technical:

107+ Coding Interview Problems with Details Solutions. - link
“How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fundamentals?” - Some great resource links in the comments - link
“Paper Digest” - a site for newly published research papers. Has variety of topic to subscribe for. - link
“List of favorite books on CS concepts/theory” - link
“Project lovable” - a site for free scientific programming problems. - link
A collection of interactive tutorials, guides and quizzes about maths, algorithms, performance, and programming languages. - link

Non-Technical :

A twitter thread from Sam Altman (chairman of Y combinator) on “How to be successful at your career” - link
The Levels.fyi annual report for software engineering compensation - “Highest paying companies of 2019” - link
[Recommended] “Be an easy employee to manage’ - a great thread with insightful comments. - link
“Yes, It’s All Your Fault: Active vs. Passive Mindsets” - Great read - link
An extract from a book I am reading :

“There is difference between losing and being beaten. Being beaten means they are better than you. They are faster, stronger and more talented. … But losing means you lost focus. It means you didn’t concentrate on what was essential. To operate at your highest level of contribution requires that you deliberately tune in to what is important in the Here and Now.”

Weekly Bullet #19 – Summary for the week

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All !

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

Technical:

Most popular and highly recommended technical books. The books are segregated in to variety of topics. - link
htop explained in depth - link
A person who got 7 offers from companies including Google, sharing his experience on how he did it. - link
Roadmaps for becoming a Frontend dev, Backend dev or a DevOps expert. - link
Interesting visualization of Bubble-sort with Hungarian folk dance. - link
How Shopify successfully merges the work of 1000+ developers everyday. - link. Also, there is a discussion with the author of the post here

Non-Technical:

For the ones who don’t have time for books, here is a way to get a Page per day of classic books delivered to your inbox. - link
Although Feynman’s approach for learning is mentioned here so many times, here is another writing on “The Secret algorithm behind learning” - link
A tediously accurate model of the solar system which is a unique educational experience that depicts the scale of the universe. - link
How to write better emails (double recommended) - link
A short quote from a book :

“I’m always suspicious of the ones who say everything’s going well. If you think that things are going well, then it’s usually some kind of arrogance. If it’s too easy for you, you just relax. You don’t make a real effort, and therefore you never find out what it is to be fully human.”

Weekly Bullet #18 – Summary for the week

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All!

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

A great post on different Linux tracing systems, which can used for Performance debugging, and how they fit together by Julia Evans. - link

Author : Julia Evans

A talk from “Strange Loop Conference 2018” on “A Practical Look at Performance Theory” by Kavya Joshi - link
Becoming a manager is not the only way up the ladder. If you enjoy getting you hands dirty with technology or if you are not a people person, Technical Leadership path is also an option. More thoughts in this great article - link
A git resource repository with 30Day code challenge and resources for Algorithms, Data Structures implementation and more. - link
List of softwares (for CI/CD, Code quality, Security) that has free tiers for developers. - link

Non-Technical:

Over 1300 Free Online courses from Top Universities on wide variety of subjects like History, Architecture, Economics etc. - link
On the importance of Morning routine by American author Daniel Pink. - link
Podcast recommendation - A podcast from Tim Ferriss with Ben Horowitz. Great talk around leadership in technical fields. - link
An extract from the book - “A guide to the good life”

" You are living in what to your ancestors would have been a dream world. You take for granted things that your ancestors had to live without. "

Weekly Bullet #17 – Summary for the week

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All!

To make these posts more Quality oriented, I am trying to reduce the frequency of posts from weekly to fortnightly (based on content). Simply put - I will not write if I don’t have anything that will add value to you.

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

A talk from “Strange Loop-2019 conference” on “Performance Matters” by Emery Berger. Covers how a small tiny thing can impact performance, importance of randomizing tests(Stabilizer tool) etc.
All lectures from “MIT 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms, Fall 2011” class.
A study guide to tell you - What to study and Why to study, along with resource recommendation. “TeachYourSelfCS.”

Weekly Bullet #15 - Summary for the week

Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All!

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

What if I told you that CPU % that you always monitor is Wrong! Did you know that requests stalled (waiting) due to memory I/O are counted in CPU utilization ? Here is more on - CPU Utilization is wrong.
I am a Mechanical Engineer by degree and Computer Engineer by profession. Here are the stories of self taught CS Engineers. - No CS Degree
The online library that collects education CS material from Stanford courses and distributes them for free. I particularly liked the Unix section. - Stanford CS Education library.
Book recommendation (courtesy: Alok). “High Performance Web Sites” - This book lists 14 specific rules to improve you client side performance.

Non-Technical:

What differentiates Professionals from Amateurs. - link
I love Emails. Unlike “instant” messages, they don’t pressure you to respond quickly without thinking much. Here is a great write-up on - Composing better mails.
A cool way of exploring realistic virtual Universe, travel from star to star, from galaxy to galaxy, landing on any planet, moon, or asteroid with the ability to explore its alien landscape. All on you computer. Check – Space Engine
A quote from a book - Mindwise

“More time together did not make the couples any more accurate; it just gave them the illusion that they were more accurate.”

Weekly Bullet #14 - Summary for the week

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

“Advice for new developers, or Things I wish I had known when I started programming.” - Part1, Part2, Part3
As an IT professional you would have come across “10x Engineer” write-ups atleast once. Here is a myth buster about it. - “10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
Brendan Gregg’s new upcoming book on Perfomance Tools - “BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability (book)”
[Long article - Read selectively] - What every computer science major should know.
“Every linux networking tool I know” - Julia Evans

Weekly Bullet #13 - Summary for the week

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

Talk by Brendan Gregg - Cloud Performance Root Cause Analysis at Netflix. YOW conference. - YouTube-Link. Length: 1hour
University of Helsinki are offering free course in AI. After finishing you’ll receive certificate you can add to your any profile. - link
Raspberry Pi 4 is available now! Also, here are the cool projects that can be built using Raspberry Pi. - link.
A list of pioneers in computer science - Wikipedia-Page

Non-Technical:

How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably - Article-Link
Documentary : Richard Feynman, more than a well known physicist, he is an amazing personality. This guy has had a great impact on my life. Here is a documentary on this amazing persons life - YouTube-link. - Length: 1hour.
Johy Ive, the Chief Design Officer of Apple is leaving Apple to form independent design company with Apple as client. - Link
A site that lists the “Top Sites” globally and country wise. I found Computer and Business category sites interesting. - TopSites.
An extract from the book that I am reading :

“Life (and our job) is difficult enough. Let’s not make it harder by getting emotional about insignificant matters”

Weekly Bullet #11 - Summary for the week

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

Java comes with built-in Performance monitoring tools, which you might want to be familiar with - link
AWS costs every programmers should know - link . Also related info on all EC2 instances. - link
Various JVM options available, along with their descriptions. - “Java hotspot VM options”. There are over 100 options along with descriptions like below.

Weekly Bullet #9 - Summary for the week

Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

Performance Check - List of commands to check Utilization, Saturation and Errors(USE method) at different components in a system. - “USE Method: Linux Performance Checklist”
Performance wise - “Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?”
Python has a long list of cool external libraries. But on the contrary, here are a list of - “Python built-ins worth learning.”
I am a big Check-list person! Recently I came across DevCheckList that lets create, share or collaborate on a checklist.
Here is an ultra black terminal I have been using for a couple of weeks now! - “Hyper”

Non-Technical:

If you love playing Chess, here are a bunch of - “Very Aggressive Openings.”
More often than not, full-time Remote work options look great. But just like everything, they have pros and cons. Here are learning from - “A Decade of Remote Work”
[Geeky - Highly Recommended] This blew my mind! Animation of - “507 mechanical movements” ! [ I did study Mechanical Engineering for 4years! :) ]
An extract from a book I am reading :

“In the beginning of your career, you spend time to earn money. Once you hit your stride in any capacity, you should spend money to earn time, as the latter is nonrenewable.”

Weekly Bullet #8 - Summary for the week

Sat, 18 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All!

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

Performance Engineering and Tuning is equally important on Client side as it is on server side. Here is a free course on client performance optimization from a Google performance engineer. - “Website Performance Optimization”
A list of useful resource for debugging and optimizing Client Side Performance. -“Awesome Web Performance Metrics”
If you have recently moved to Python 3.X, here are a few things which you didn’t have in Python 2.x. - “Things you’re probably not using in Python 3 – but should.”
Here is a great dump of information on - “System Design.”
The shift in the hiring process in Software Industry is true! Here is a thoughtful article on the same. - “Senior Developers are Getting Rejected for Jobs”
Highly Recommended for a healthy laugh - “Let’s deploy to production!”

Non-Technical :

I have recently been exploring Board Games. Here is a great compilation for - “The Best 2-Player Board Games.”
I have been Tracking my expenses for 3 years now, and I review them by every month end. I use AndroMoney for tracking. It has both WebClient and AndroidApp. There are 100 other apps out there, but the point is, once you know where your money is going, you can control it.
I came across Kevin Kelly in one of the podcasts. He is movie buff and has a list of great movie recommendations. - “TrueFilm”.
An extract from the book that I am reading:

“It’s very interesting to observe who the top competitors pick out when they’re five rounds into the sparring sessions and they’re completely gassed. The ones who are on the steepest growth curve look for the hardest guy there—the one who might beat them up—while others look for someone they can take a break on.”

Weekly Bullet #7 - Summary for the week

Sun, 05 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

“Intermediate Vim “- has daily usable and highly productive Vim commands listed.
You have heard about git a lot, but don’t know where to get started ? - “Learn how to use Git (from basics)” . This would take your 30minutes.
“Introduction to Computation and Programming using Python.” - Course has been taken by a million people. You will learn to think computationally and write programs to tackle useful problems. The course is free to try. Also, here is “Intro video” about the course.
Here is how Python is used at Netflix. - “Python at Netflix.”
Want to do some web-scrapping with Python and need some ideas about the same. - Check the comments!

Non-Technical :

Have you ever had an idea of getting your personal website, but then didn’t spend enough time to make it happen ? Here is another reason to get back to that idea. - “You should have a personal website.”
A study on how much money professionals make across different fields. Study link. Results link. Note: Make sure to use filters for the results.
Practical career advice - “Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young.”
A view on current state of Internet:

Weekly Bullet #6 - Summary for the week

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

Time spent on Garbage collection in Java plays a very important role in fine tuning the Performance of an application. Here is a great talk on - “Understanding Java Garbage Collection and What You Can Do about It.”
Cheat sheet for Sorting Algorithms - It also explains each algorithm in details on how they work and what is their Big O cost. - Cheat Sheet Link.

Weekly Bullet #5 - Summary for the week

Sun, 21 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

Performance tuning Client side is equally as important as Server side. Here is a great article on – “How to Identify expensive functions using the Chrome DevTools CPU Profiler.”
Majority of us never get beyond surface-level understanding of how git works. Here are a few – “Tips for a disciplined git workflow.”

Weekly Bullet #4 - Summary for the week

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

In Linux, perf command can give you a lot of power for instrumenting the system if you know how to use it. Here is a “not so short” description on how to use it. Note: A post about perf commands is in the pipeline & I will post it shortly ! – “Perf command in linux.”
Bash is more powerful than Black Magic (if that exists!). Here is a 3 part series on some powerful “Bash one-liners.”
Developer surveys usually give an insight on what most people are working on / the next Big Thing! Here are the results of “Stackoverflow Developer Survey Results 2019.”
Top documents and papers on Hacker News in 2019. Updated weekly. – “Hacker News Papers.”
If you have a student email, take advantage of the Github student pack and others. “Github educational free pack.”

Non-Technical :

I greatly enjoyed the podcast. – “How Seth Godin Manages His Life – Rules.”
Note : It is a 123minute long podcast. I consumed it at 2x play speed during an overnight journey. One of the take aways for me – “Most of the people keep playing with the cards they have got instead of moving to a different table with different cards. Don’t get stuck. Move to a different table.”
Have you tried Stoic philosophy ? If not, I highly recommend it for general life wisdom. If a Stoic philosophical book like “Letters from a Stoic” is too much for you, then there is an app – “The Stoic” which will fill you with one Stoic quote a day!
So there was the first image of Blackhole this week. This explains the efforts involved in making Blackhole image a reality. – Youtube link.
An amazing extract from a book that hit me:

“When you are very competitive, you get good at the thing you are competing with people on. But it comes at the expense of losing out on many other things. It is important to understand and accept the consequences.”

Weekly Bullet #3 - Summary for the week

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical:

If you had only 60 secs to check the performance of a linux system, here would be a check list to find the bottlenecks ! “Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds”
We all know the importance of cutting and parsing only required parts of an output in programming. Awk on a whole can do much more than that. Here is - “Why you should learn just a little Awk”
I found this resource on github which is suitable for almost every programmer, System and Network administrators, DevOps, Pentesters and Security Researchers. - “The Book of Secret Knowledge”
On a lighter note - Remember the first time you opened a Vim editor and didn’t know how to exit ? Here is a funny milestone on same ! “Stack Overflow ~ Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim”

Non-Technical :

Learning never ends. So it is good to know the best ways of learning. Here is a discussion on the same. - “Ask HN: What are your best learning methods/hacks/tips? "
Learning is important true, but we forget what we learn if there is no repetition. I use Anki for spaced repetition. Anki works wonders. Reviewing notes multiple times based on the ones you mark Easy, Medium or Difficult. - “Anki”
Quote I’m pondering :

“I don’t give explanations anymore, and I’ll catch myself when I start giving explanations like ‘Oh, I’m sorry, I can’t make it. I have a doctor’s appointment. I’m really sick. I broke my leg over the weekend’ or something. I just say, ‘I can’t do it. I hope everything is well.’ "

Weekly Bullet #2 - Summary for the week

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All !

Here is the weekly summary of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I found very resourceful.

Technical :

Programming notes on almost every language. I have learnt half of the Python I know from here. “Programming Notes for Professionals books”
The reason I love Linux is, there are tools available for peeking in to the performance of every component. Below cheat sheet lists the set of commands to look in to different components.

Weekly Bullet #1 - Summary for the week

Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi All !

This is an idea that I have been planning to try for quite sometime now. A summary of what happened over the week. A weekly bullet would come out every Saturday and it would cover:

What interesting stuff happened in Tech or Non-Tech world over the week –(Not NEWS)
Extracts from the books that I am reading (somethings which have hit me hard)
Resources Tech/Non-Tech that I might have come across.

So here is the First of something New.