Second Brain
A small bookshelf of things I’m currently reading and studying. It includes fiction, non‑fiction, research papers, and videos that offer different perspectives on systems, people, and the world, helping me grow as an engineer.
Books
A single shelf for both fiction and non‑fiction — stories that bend time and books that explain how the world actually works.
Research papers
Papers I’ve read and implemented parts of — from networking to storage and distributed systems.
- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters (Google)
- Bloom Filters in Redis and practical cache design notes
- Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System — introduces logical clocks.
- Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of Distributed Systems
- Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
- In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Raft) — designed to be easier than Paxos.
- The Google File System — a good intro to distributed storage.
- Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key‑value Store
Videos
Talks, lectures, and interviews worth re‑watching when I get stuck.
- Principles of Microeconomics – MIT OpenCourseWare (14.01) — full MIT intro microeconomics course: supply & demand, consumer/producer theory, markets, welfare, and basic game theory.