I’m trying to learn more about:

• distributed systems
• databases/storage systems
• runtimes
• cryptography

In elixir, go and/or rust.

My interests outside computer science are primarily philosophy and economics. Currently reading: Designing Data Intensive Systems

2024:

• Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
• High Performance Browser Networking
• Distributed Systems - Maarten & Andrew
• How to Design Programs

2023:

• The Kubernetes Book - Poulton N. [up next]
• Networking & Kubernetes - A Layered Approach
• Concurrency in Go
• crafting interpreters
• Learn you some erlang (for great good!)
• Erlang in Anger
• Rust for Rustaceans
• Testing Elixir
• The Beam Book[reference]
• The Go Programming Language [April ‘23]
• Metaprogramming Elixir [February ‘23]
• Programming Ecto[January ‘23]
• The little Ecto Cookbook [January ‘23]

2022:

• Concurrent data processing in elixir [December ‘22]
• the rust book [August ‘22]
• cryptography basics [July - August ‘22][incomplete/revist]
• existentialism is a humanism [July ‘22]
• elixir in action [July ‘22]
• how to solve it - George Pólya [June ‘22][due for re-read]
• algorithms and data structure basics [March - June ‘22]

This is a living document and not a linear historical timeline! My direction and interests are in flux. Got a great recommendation? let me know on twitter