Awesome Stuff from Infinite Sum Games

If you got something awesome, drop it! A content archival unit because our whatsapp group is too overloaded with awesomeness. Open-sourcing and actively curating this list so that the community can benefit from it.

Challenges to Try Out:

1. Implement MapReduce in Golang
2. Write yourself a Git!
3. Building Blockchain in Go
4. Write a NES Emulator
5. GossipGlomers: Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenge

Cool Data Structures

1. Lock-Free Queues
2. Lock-Free Stack
3. Lock-Free Priority Queue
4. Lock-Free FreeList
5. Lock-Free Redux

Low-Latency/High-Frequency Stuff:

1. From Exchange to EyeBalls
2. Where Nanoseconds Matter
3. When a Microsecond is An Eternity

Rust:

1. Tips for Faster Rust Compilation
2. Logging in Rust
3. Collect of Simple Rust Blogs
4. Integrating Redis with Rust
5. Parking Lot vs Mutexes
6. 1 Millisecond API

DevOps

1. On-Perm K8s - Production Ready Setup
2. Securing K8s - Production Ready Setup
3. Docker in Production
4. Don't run DB inside container
5. Kubernetes Pod Lifecycle
6. What is Kubernetes Pod? (with practical examples)
7. How to create a static pod in K8s?
8. How the Kubernetes Scheduler Chooses a Node?
9. Understanding Kubernetes Init Containers
10. Kubernetes Pod Priority, PriorityClass and Preemption

Databases:

1. Autovacuum in Postgres
2. How to tune Postgres for Write Heavy Workloads
3. Popular Postgres Extensions - Neon
4. How We Built Fly Postgres
5. A Graph-Based Firebase
6. Database in a Browser, A Spec
7. CDC with Debezium & Postgres
8. How Figma Scaled to Multiple DBs

Design Patterns

1. Behavioral Design Patterns in Golang
2. Creational Design Patterns in Golang
3. Behavioral Design Patterns (Not language specific)

Books: