Gems.
Books, videos, and people that shape how I think and build. A living list.
Books
~/booksOn the bookshelf.
Building Low Latency Applications with C++
Sourav Ghosh
Videos
~/videosTalks, channels, and videos worth returning to.
Managing 238M Memberships at Netflix
InfoQ
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
The Pragmatic Engineer
Adventures in Spacetime - Kevlin Henney - NDC London 2025
NDC Conferences
How Linux is built with Greg Kroah-Hartman
The Pragmatic Engineer
LISA18 - Code-Yellow: Helping Operations Top-Heavy Teams the Smart Way
USENIX
Developing at Uber Scale
Develocity
How Simple Is "As Simple As Possible"? - Rendle . - NDC Porto 2024
NDC Conferences
ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461
Lex Fridman
What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024
GOTO Conferences
Yet Another "Highly Technical Talk" with Hanselman and Toub | BRK121
Microsoft Developer
Microservices, Where Did It All Go Wrong? - Ian Cooper - NDC Melbourne 2025
NDC Conferences
Are Rewrites always a Bad Idea? - Adele Carpenter - NDC Melbourne 2025
NDC Conferences
Building a Culture of Healthy Conflict in Tech Teams - Andrew Murphy - NDC Melbourne 2025
NDC Conferences
Algorithms Demystified - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2025
NDC Conferences
Keynote: Machines, Learning, and Machine Learning - Dylan Beattie - NDC Porto 2025
NDC Conferences
Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
Andrej Karpathy
A New Scala Ethos - Scala Days 2025 talk by Daniel Ciocîrlan
Rock the JVM
AI, DevOps, and Kubernetes: Kelsey Hightower on What’s Next
JetBrains
Why Hard Work Doesn’t Lead To Career Growth (And What Actually Does)
A Life Engineered
How AWS S3 is built
The Pragmatic Engineer
What Most Engineers Get Wrong About AI and Career | Kelsey Hightower
TechWorld with Nana
Building world-class engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summit
The Pragmatic Engineer
The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster And No One Knew
Veritasium
The most beautiful formula not enough people understand
3Blue1Brown
Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.
Andrej Karpathy
Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber’s first CTO)
The Pragmatic Engineer
System Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
MIT OpenCourseWare
Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)
Lenny's Podcast
One Unencrypted File Broke This 10-Year Investigation Wide Open 🎙 Darknet Diaries Ep. 175: Bayrob
Jack Rhysider
Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori
The Pragmatic Engineer
People
~/peoplePeople whose work I follow.
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