Cool Links
Blogs
Tech bloggers that I find fascinating and inspiring
- Martin Kleppmann
- Julia Evans
- Julian Schrittwieser
- Julien Le Dem - The Sympathetic Ink Blog
- David Morgan-Mar
- BeepBoop - Friendly Robot
- Matthijs Cox - The Scientific Coder
- Ondřej Čertík
- Milan Curcic
- Shen Hong
- Yagmur C. Tas
- Thomas Stringer
- Daniel Estévez
- Dev.Poga
- Michael Stapelberg
- Stefan Marr
- Francis Bach
- David Gomes
- Daniel Holden
- Simon Willison’s Weblog
- Sem Sinchenko
Books
Tech-related books I’ve enjoyed
- Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Data Analytics
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Modern Fortran - Building efficient parallel applications
- Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow
- How Linux Works, 3rd Edition: What Every Superuser Should Know
- Docker Deep Dive
- Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets
- The Big Book of Data Engineering
- Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
- Data Analysis with Python and PySpark
- Advanced Analytics with PySpark
- Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications
- Parallel and High Performance Computing
- Machine Learning Design Patterns: Solutions to Common Challenges in Data Preparation, Model Building, and MLOps
- Introducing MLOps
- Implementing MLOps in the Enterprise - PreOrder
- Functional Programming in Scala
- Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
- Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
- Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
- Deciphering Data Architectures
Podcasts
Data Architecture
- How Discord Stores Billions of Messages
- How Netflix Keeps Its Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective
- How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
- Maximizing Scalability - Apache Kafka and OpenTelemetry
- How Discord Uses Open-Source Tools for Scalable Data Orchestration & Transformation
Scientific Computing
- The History Of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing - Interviews
- Scientific Computing - A Historical Perspective
AWS Certification Resources
Some resources I’ve used to prepare for AWS exams
- Cloud Practitioner:
- Solutions Architect – Associate:
- Developer – Associate:
- Machine Learning – Specialty:
- Data Analytics - Specialty:
- Data Engineer - Associate:
- Udemy Course - AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate 2024
- AWS whitepapers:
- Build Modern Data Streaming Architectures on AWS
- AWS Glue Best Practices: Building a Performant and Cost Optimized Data Pipeline
- AWS Glue Best Practices: Building an Operationally Efficient Data Pipeline
- AWS Glue Best Practices: Building a Secure and Reliable Data Pipeline
- Architectural Patterns to Build End-to-End Data Driven Applications on AWS
- Big Data Analytics Options on AWS
Misc
Random cool stuff