Readings

A selection of papers, articles and podcasts that I’ve found interesting.

Writing fast software

• Performance Hints
• Performance Analysis Methodology
• Systems at capacity

Designing distributed systems

• Δ-CRDTs: making δ-CRDTs delta-based
• Clocks and causality
• Nightshade: NEAR Protocol Sharding Design
• Verifying Distributed Systems with Isabelle/HOL

Algorithms & Data Structures

• Cuckoo Filter
• Kalman Filters
• GJK Algorithm for Shape Overlaps
• Half Edge Data Structures

Fundamentals of AI

• Deepseek
• Illustrated Transformer
• The Transformer Family

Money and the real world

• Pricing Money
• Sea Change

Miscellaneous

• Meditations on Moloch
• The Beginning of Infinity