A Catalog of Notes on Software and Computer Science

A recap at the end of 2022.

Golden Gate Park, November 27, 2022

Storage Systems

[Paper Notes] The Google File System (GFS)

[Paper Notes] Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data

[Paper Notes] Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store

[Paper Notes] Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database

[Paper Notes] F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales

[Paper Notes] Spanner: Becoming a SQL System

Caching

[Paper Notes] Scaling Memcache at Facebook

[Paper Notes] TAO: Facebook’s Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph

Data Processing

[Paper Notes] Resilient Distributed Datasets (Spark)

[Paper Notes] Storm @Twitter

[Paper Notes] The Dataflow Model

Coordinator

[Paper Notes] ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems

Message Broker

[Paper Notes] Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing

Datacenter Management

[Paper Notes] Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg

Monitoring

[Paper Notes] Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database

Tail Latency

[Paper Notes] The Tail at Scale

Basics in Computer Science

Basics of Operating Systems

Basics of Computer Networks

Basics of Database Systems

Basics of Distributed Systems

Notes on Software Security

Database Systems

[Lecture Notes] Query Scheduling

[Lecture Notes] Query Execution & Processing

[Lecture Notes] Vectorization and Compilation

[Lecture Notes] Join Algorithms

[Lecture Notes] Query Optimization

[Lecture Notes] Dremel, Photon and Snowflake

Vector Database

[Paper Notes] Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System

System Design Interviews

[Book Notes] System Design Interview — An Insider’s Guide (Volume 2)

[Book Notes] System Design Interview — An Insider’s Guide (Volume 1)

Software Engineering

[Book Notes] Software Engineering at Google

Software Complexity

[Book Notes] What makes code hard to read and change?

C++ Programming

Nuts and Bolts of C++ (1/2)

Nuts and Bolts of C++ (2/2)

[Book Notes] C++ Templates: The Complete Guide

[Book Notes] C++ Concurrency in Action

Category Theory

[Book Notes] Category Theory for Programmers