Weekly Bullet #37 – Summary for the week

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Technical :

• A new book released on the hot eBPF – “Learning eBPF” by Liz Rice. This a summary form and a quick introduction to eBPF capabilities when compared to “BPF Performance tools” by Brendan Gregg.

• To understand latency in detail – “Everything You Know About Latency Is Wrong” – link here
• Why Percentiles Don’t Work the Way You Think ? Reason to stop using Average value of metrics and how percentiles work. Link here
• Here is a detailed and practical resource on System Design in Software Engineering – link here
• “Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry” – opentelemetry is the way to go when it comes to traces/metrics observability in your code base. – link here
• This is a lovely visualization – “Visualizing Lucene’s segment merges” – link here
• [Podcast] : What’s new in Go 1.20 – Podcast link , release notes

Non-Technical :

• 50 Ideas that changed my life – David Perell. Link here . My fav one from the 50 is:
  
  “By reading this, you are choosing not to read something else. Everything we do is like this. Doing one thing requires giving up another. Whenever you explicitly choose to do one thing, you implicitly choose not to do another thing.“

• Mental Liquidity – ability to quickly abandon previous beliefs when the world changes or when you come across new information. link here
• “Two types of Software Engineers” – One assumes it’s easy because it’s a non-technical problem, the other assumes that’s why it’s hard – link here
• [Recommended] – “What you give up when moving into engineering management” – Link here
• Quote from a book:

I write everything down, and since I put my notes where they will pop up again in the right place at the right time, once I have written something down I forget about it. The end result is that when I break from work, I break from work-related stress as well.

What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School

Cheers, until next time!