cyoon1729/systems-reading-group

systems-reading-group

Programming Languages

Runtimes

• JVM
  • JVM Anatomy Quarks
  • JVM architecture blog posts from 2013
  • OReilly Optimizing Java
• Erlang/OTP Beam
  • The Beam Book

Some Cool Concurrency stuff

• Coroutines, a review? paper on coroutines
• Structured Concurrency: A Review
• Rust, Swift, Erlang
• Ractor: Erlang-style actor framework for Rust
• (Haskell) STM?

Virtualization, Containerization, and the Cloud

• A brief history of virtualization and containerization
• What even is a container
• Implementing a container runtime
• Docker
• Amazon FireCracker
• Meta Owl
• More stuff

Databases and Storage Systems

Distributed OLTP SQL

• ToyDB architecture
• RocksDB Architecture, Paper -> TiKV
• CockroachDB design
• Good to know: {🅱️, 🅱️+, 🅱️w}-trees

Database Potpourri

• Graph Databases (GQL, ByteGraph, Facebook Tao)
• DynamoDB
• Lucene/ElasticSearch
• More Lucene

Storage-level Systems Engineering

• sled
• Atomic commit in SQLite

Web Stuff

Web Compiler Infrastructure

• esbuild, SWC, GLSLX

WebAssembly

• what even is wasm, wasmtime, Build your own wasm compiler

Javascript Runtimes

• Node.js, a blog post about it, Node.js in action
• Deno
  • Architecture Docs
  • Conference 1
  • Conference
• Bun

Nix: Reproducible Builds

• Nix Whitepaper
• Nix Pills
• Nix Paper

Networks Speedrun (topics, in no specific order)

• Ethernet, Switched Ethernet, Bluetooth, the Internet, BGP, IPv6
• UDP, TCP, Congestion Control, TLS, HTTP, QUIC
• multicast, webRTC, DNS
• Computer Networks: A Systems Approach