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Explore a curated, ever-growing collection of books, articles, and resources that I'm currently learning from or have found valuable for my growth as a developer and lifelong learner.

16 strategies for getting unblocked at work
Evan Wondrasek
must-study
RabbitMQ’s Common Issues & Misconceptions: A Support Perspective
Johan Rhodin
rabbitmqmessage-passing
Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction
Netflix
must-studydistributed
Monoid
must-studymonad
Semigroup Action
must-studymonad
Greg Young answers your Event Sourcing questions!
Greg Young, Derek Comartin
must-study
Designing for change with Vertical Slice Architecture
Chris Sainty
couplingcohesionsoftware-architecture
Integrated Tests Are A Scam
J. B. Rainsberger
testingintegration-test
Trench Talk: Evolving a Model
Yves Reynhout
patientschedulingevent-sourcing
The Hidden Complexity of Scaling WebSockets
Atul Jalan
websocketmessage-passing
Don’t Delete – Just Don’t
Udi Dahan
Collaborative Editing in ProseMirror
Marijn Haverbeke
Keep your streams short! Temporal modeling for fast reads and optimal data retention
Oskar Dudycz
event-sourcingcqrsevent-driven
The Well-Balanced Programmer
J. B. Rainsberger
SQL queries don't start with SELECT
Julian Evans
sqlmust-study
System Thinking and Event Driven Architecture
Arjan Noordhoek
event-driven
Event Driven Architecture EXPLAINED in 15 Minutes
Continuous Delivery
event-driven
It’s always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time
Marc Brooker
tcpnetworkingdistributed
Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey
ai
Five Levels of Chunking Strategies in RAG| Notes from Greg’s Video
Anurag Mishra
aiai-chunkingai-rag
A Cheat Sheet and Some Recipes For Building Advanced RAG
aiai-rag
A deep dive into the world's smartest email AI
Hiranya Jayathilaka
aiai-rag
Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores
must-study
Linearizability versus Serializability
Peter Bailis
must-studydatabasescomputer-science
Putting the “You” in CPU
must-studycomputer-science
Current Software Engineers have no Deep Knowledge
Jonathan Blow
must-study
Study of std::io::Error
Alex Kladov
rustlang
Systems Thinking, Learning, and Problem Solving
Russell L. Ackoff
must-studysystem-designsoftware-architecture
DropBox Engineering Evening on RocksDB
Dhruba Borthakur
databases
Event-Driven Architecture lost its way
Derek Comartin
must-studyevent-driven
The pendulum swings! Microservices to Monoliths
Derek Comartin
must-studyevent-drivenservice-oriented-architecture
Architecture Without an End State
Michael Nygard
software-architecturemust-study
Garbage data in, garbage models out
Jodie Burchell
domain-designdata-integrity
Let's
Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt, Sir Tony Hoare
must-study
Transforming Healthcare with Distributed Actors
Bryan Hunter
erlangdistributed
The Grug Brained Developer
must-study
The Workflow Pattern
Yves Reynhout
event-sourcingworkflow
Erlang concurrency
Robert Virding
erlangconcurrency
Beyond Continuous Improvement
must-study
System Thinking and Event-Driven Architecture
Arjan Noordhoek
event-drivenbusinesssoftware-architecturemust-study
Why Programming Languages Matter
Andrew Black
computer-science
Stop Writing Dead Programs
Jack Rusher
computer-science
Choose Postgres queue technology
Adriano Caloiaro
postgresqldatabases
How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner
Erik Dietrich
peoplemust-study
Don’t Disrupt Agile. Drop it!
Jeff Doolittle
agile
Orchestration vs Choreography, a Guide to Composing Your Monolith
Ian Thomas
event-drivenorchestrationchoreographymust-study
Event Sourcing and Post/Pre Dated Transactions
Greg Young
event-sourcing
The React Ecosystem in 2023
Codevolution
reactjsfrontendui
Ruby Conf 12 - Boundaries
Gary Bernhardt
oopfunctional-programming
Essential features of an Event Store for Event Sourcing
Anton Stöckl
event-sourcing
The impossibility of exactly-once delivery
Savvas Kleanthous
message-passing
Exactly-once or not, atomic broadcast is still impossible in Kafka - or anywhere
message-passing
Why you probably do not need OAuth2 / OpenID Connect
Aeneas Rekkas
oauthiam
Erlang 103 - Collaborating State Machines (In Erlang and Biological Systems)
ElixirZone
erlang
Event Modeling
Adam Dymitruk
event-modelingevent-sourcingevent-drivenprocess-managers
The Secret Sauce Behind NoSQL: LSM Tree
ByteByteGo
lsm-treememtabledatabases
The Future of Programming
Bret Victor
How dumb do you want your pipes
Gerard Klijs
software-architecturemessage-passingservice-oriented-architecturekafka
As time goes by
Thomas Pierrain
event-sourcing
Kafka: a map of traps for the enlightened dev and op
Emmanuel Bernard, Clement Escoffier
kafka
Keep your streams short! Temporal modeling for fast reads and optimal data retention
Oskar Dudycz
event-sourcingevent-drivensoftware-architecture
The art of destroying software
Greg Young
software-architecture
Erlang in Anger
Fred Hebert
erlangelixir-lang
Redis Explained
Mahdi Yusuf
redis
Functional Event Sourcing Decider
Jeremie Chassaing
event-sourcingevent-drivenfunctional-programmingmust-study
Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!
Fred Hebert
elixir-langerlang
Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball
Doug Terry
consistencydatabases
RPC over RabbitMQ (with Elixir)
Andrea Leopardi
rabbitmqelixir-langmessage-passingdistributed
How Airbnb designs for trust
Joe Gebbia
peopleleadership
Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
Carl Anderson
peopleleadership
How we designed Dropbox ATF: an async task framework
job-processing
Messaging Patterns: Ephemeral Events
Mathias Verraes
event-driven
Event Sourcing Projections Patterns: Deduplication Strategies
Kacper Gunia
event-sourcing
The history of the Erlang virtual machine
Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding
elixir-lang
Stop Using Loading Spinner, There’s Something Better
designuser-experience
Parse, don’t validate
Alexis King
fpvalidation
Domain Modeling Made Functional
Scott Wlaschin
dddfpfsharp
ACH File Details
banking
Clean Architecture and Design
Robert C. Martin
software-architecture
Distributed transaction patterns for microservices compared
Bilgin Ibryam
distributedevent-sourcingevent-drivenfencing-tokens
From the Field: Escaping Appland
software-architecture
If (domain logic) then CQRS, or Saga?
Udi Dahan
cqrsevent-sourcingdddevent-driven
Which Kinds of Tests Should I Write?
J. B. Rainsberger
testing
The Magic Tricks of Testing
Sandi Metz
testing
Transaction Script
Martin Fowler
cqrs
Event sourcing and external service integration
Martin Krasser
event-sourcing
Event Streaming is not Event Sourcing!
Oskar Dudycz
event-sourcingevent-drivenevent-streaming
Saga and Process Manager - distributed processes in practice
Oskar Dudycz
sagasprocess-managers
Graceful shutdown in Elixir - Try not to drop the ball
Pawel Szafran
elixir-langgraceful-shutdownkubernetes
Should You Put Several Event Types in the Same Kafka Topic?
Martin Kleppmann
kafkaevent-drivenevent-streaming
Data Mesh: The Answer to the Data Warehouse Hypocrisy
Daniel Abadi
event-driven
What I wish I knew when I started designing systems years ago
Jakub Nabrdalik
software-architecture
Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm?
Richard Feldman
fp
ElixirZone: Erlang 103 - Collaborating State Machines (In Erlang and Biological Systems)
ElixirZone
elixir-langbiology
Projections Explained
Yves Reynhout
event-sourcingevent-drivenprojections
Correlation id and causation id in evented systems
Robert Pankowecki
event-drivenevent-sourcing
UX Movement
designuser-experience
The Fastest Navigation Layout for a Three-Level Menu
designdesign-layout
EventSourcing.NetCore
Oskar Dudycz
cqrsevent-sourcingevent-drivenc#
Functional Design Patterns
Scott Wlaschin
fp
Depending on Functions
Rory Roberts
computer-scienceoop
Functional Core, Imperative Shell
computer-science
Principles for designing and deploying scalable applications on Kubernetes
k8sdeployment
Two-phase commit and beyond
Murat Demirbas
distributedtwo-phase-commit
Coaching vs Mentoring - What's the Difference? by Dan Hardiker, Heather Wilde
people
Fencing tokens
distributedfencing-tokens
How to do distributed locking
Martin Kleppmann
lockingdistributed
Know the Flow! Events, Commands & Long-Running Services
Martin Schimak
cqrsevent-drivenevent-sourcingworkflowmust-study
How to Use Macros in Elixir
Jia Hao Woo
elixir-langmacros
SRE Books
sredevops
Reliable event dispatching using a transactional outbox
event-drivenoutbox-pattern
Filling the gaps in CQRS and Event Sourced systems: taxonomy of system components
Andriy Drozdyuk
cqrsevent-sourcingdddevent-driven
DDD, Hexagonal, Onion, Clean, CQRS, … How I put it all together
Herberto Graça
Patterns for Decoupling in Distributed Systems: Passage of Time Event
Mathias Verraes
Tackling Complex Event Flows
Martin Schimak
All our aggregates are wrong
Mauro Servienti
SOLID
Optimistic concurrency for pessimistic times
Oskar Dudycz
Repository
Edward Hieatt, Rob Mee
Talk Session: Know the Flow! Events, Commands & Long-Running Services
Martin Schimak
RabbitMQ vs Kafka
Jack Vanlightly
JOTB19 - The Bizarre Mating Ritual Of The Whipnose Seadevil
Greg Young
Mediator
Event Sourcing: Traceability, Consistency, Correctness - Thomas Bøgh Fangel - DDD Europe 2020
Thomas Bøgh Fange
Design the infrastructure persistence layer
Functional architecture - The pits of success
Mark Seemann
must-study
Pattern: Transactional outbox
Chris Richardson
DDD Aggregates: Consistency Boundary
James Hickey
Highly COHESIVE Software Design to tame Complexity
Derek Comartin
Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball
Doug Terry
An event-driven approach to building Elixir applications | Code Elixir LDN 19
Ben Smith
Design the infrastructure persistence layer
Snapshotting Strategies
Oskar Dudycz
Classes vs. Data Structures
Robert C. Martin
Building a Request Pipeline for Separating Concerns with Pipes & Filters
Derek Comartin
Primitive Obsession Code Smell
Optimistic Concurrency in an HTTP API with ETags & Hypermedia
Derek Comartin
The Ugly of Event Sourcing - Projection Schema Changes
Dennis Doomen
TestDouble
Martin Fowler
My TOP Patterns for Event Driven Architecture
Derek Comartin
Outbox, Inbox patterns and delivery guarantees explained
Oskar Dudycz
Mediator Design Pattern
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Evans Eric
Vernon Vaughn
cqrsevent-sourcingdddevent-driven
Tell-Dont-Ask
Martin Fowler
Event Sourcing for the Cloud Developer
Chris Condron
Integrated Tests Are A Scam
J. B. Rainsberger
Thirteen ways of looking at a Turtle
Scott Wlaschin
Akka.NET: The Future of Distributed Programming in .NET
Aaron Stannard
3 Reasons to Model Identity as a Value Object
Implementing Domain-Driven Design by Vernon Vaughn
Evans Eric
Keynote: 8 Lines of Code
Greg Young
Decomposing CRUD to a Task Based UI
Derek Comartin
Event-Driven Architecture and the Outbox Pattern
Rod Shokrian
What is event modeling
Adam Dymitruk

Learning Vault

16 strategies for getting unblocked at work

RabbitMQ’s Common Issues & Misconceptions: A Support Perspective

Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

Monoid

Semigroup Action

Greg Young answers your Event Sourcing questions!

Designing for change with Vertical Slice Architecture

Integrated Tests Are A Scam

Trench Talk: Evolving a Model

The Hidden Complexity of Scaling WebSockets

Don’t Delete – Just Don’t

Collaborative Editing in ProseMirror

Keep your streams short! Temporal modeling for fast reads and optimal data retention

The Well-Balanced Programmer

SQL queries don't start with SELECT

System Thinking and Event Driven Architecture

Event Driven Architecture EXPLAINED in 15 Minutes

It’s always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey

Five Levels of Chunking Strategies in RAG| Notes from Greg’s Video

A Cheat Sheet and Some Recipes For Building Advanced RAG

A deep dive into the world's smartest email AI

Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores

Linearizability versus Serializability

Putting the “You” in CPU

Current Software Engineers have no Deep Knowledge

Study of std::io::Error

Systems Thinking, Learning, and Problem Solving

DropBox Engineering Evening on RocksDB

Event-Driven Architecture lost its way

The pendulum swings! Microservices to Monoliths

Architecture Without an End State

Garbage data in, garbage models out

Let's

Transforming Healthcare with Distributed Actors

The Grug Brained Developer

The Workflow Pattern

Erlang concurrency

Beyond Continuous Improvement

System Thinking and Event-Driven Architecture

Why Programming Languages Matter

Stop Writing Dead Programs

Choose Postgres queue technology

How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner

Don’t Disrupt Agile. Drop it!

Orchestration vs Choreography, a Guide to Composing Your Monolith

Event Sourcing and Post/Pre Dated Transactions

The React Ecosystem in 2023

Ruby Conf 12 - Boundaries

Essential features of an Event Store for Event Sourcing

The impossibility of exactly-once delivery

Exactly-once or not, atomic broadcast is still impossible in Kafka - or anywhere

Why you probably do not need OAuth2 / OpenID Connect

Erlang 103 - Collaborating State Machines (In Erlang and Biological Systems)

Event Modeling

The Secret Sauce Behind NoSQL: LSM Tree

The Future of Programming

How dumb do you want your pipes

As time goes by

Kafka: a map of traps for the enlightened dev and op

Keep your streams short! Temporal modeling for fast reads and optimal data retention

The art of destroying software

Erlang in Anger

Redis Explained

Functional Event Sourcing Decider

Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!

Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball

RPC over RabbitMQ (with Elixir)

How Airbnb designs for trust

Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches

How we designed Dropbox ATF: an async task framework

Messaging Patterns: Ephemeral Events

Event Sourcing Projections Patterns: Deduplication Strategies

The history of the Erlang virtual machine

Stop Using Loading Spinner, There’s Something Better

Parse, don’t validate

Domain Modeling Made Functional

ACH File Details

Clean Architecture and Design