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Owen Hochwald

Building

distributed systems

Books and papers I have read or am working through.

Books

Distributed Systems / Backend

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications— Martin Kleppmann
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  • Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach— Kurose & Ross
    read
  • Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective— Bryant & O'Hallaron
    read

Algorithms / Fundamentals

  • Introduction to Algorithms (CLRS)— Cormen et al.
    read
  • The Algorithm Design Manual— Skiena
    read

Software Craft

  • The Pragmatic Programmer— Hunt & Thomas
    read
  • A Philosophy of Software Design— Ousterhout
    read
  • Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces— Arpaci-Dusseau
    reading

Papers

  • Attention Is All You Need— Vaswani et al. (2017)
    read
  • MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters— Dean & Ghemawat (2004)
    read
  • Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store— DeCandia et al. (2007)
    read