wassimbj/engineering-stuff

resources to become a better software engineer

Engineering blogs, articles, videos and tools

Blogs

• Airbnb engineering blog

• Shopify Engineering Blog

• Discord engineering blog

• Facebook engineering blog

• Doordash engineering blog

• Amazon Prime Tech Blog

• Instagram engineering blog

• Coursera engineering blog

• Paypal engineering blog

• Capital One Tech blog

• Repl.it Blog

• Netflix engineering blog

• Uber engineering blog

• Dropbox engineering blog

• Twitter engineering blog

• Toptal blog

• Better Programming

• Awesome scalability

• The Software House (tsh) blog

• InfoQ: Software Development News, Trends & Best Practices 📍

• Software engineering daily

• Eloquent javascript

• Learn anything you can imagine

• High Scalability 📍

• AWS in plain english

• Great Network programming notes

• Nick Craver Blog

• Tech Differences

• The Tech Terms Computer Dictionary 📍

• Cloudflare learning center (you should check it)

• Dev Notes

• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education 📍

Articles & Papers

• High Performance Browser Networking

• Great article about serverless 📍

• Papers from the computer science community

• Introduction and Overview of Apache Kafka

• Introduction to ZooKeeper

• Scalability for Dummies

• System Design Interview Questions

• How to design a system to scale to your first 100 million users 📍

• How to Generate Millions of HTTP Requests 📍

• What Is a CPU Core? A Basic Definition 📍

• Full list of AWS services with short and simple description 📍

• Scaling WebSocket in Go and beyond 📍

• Understanding Performance Metrics and Network Traffic

System Design

• System Design Interview 📍

• Technical keyswords explained 📍

Videos

• How We've Scaled Dropbox (You should watch this)

• Scaling Pinterest

• Scaling Pinterest (Better version)

• Scaling Databases - Web Development (Simple and nice short video)

• Hussein Nasser's backend engineer playlists 📍

• Scalability (Harvard Web Development) By David Malan

Security

• OWASP collection on application security topics

• XS-Leaks WIKI

• Stanford CS235 Web Security

Cheat-sheets _{^{no body knows eveything, right ?}}

• Docker Cheat-sheet

• Awesome cheat-sheets

• Bash

• OverAPI

• AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Design

• Website Inspiration

Tools (Free)

• Whimsical Best tool for everything, flowsharts for desinging a system, sticky notes and more...

• Excalidraw whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams