Archive

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Coding

Algorithms and Data Structures

• Arrays vs. Linked Lists

• Binary Heaps

• Graphs

• Topological Sort

Coding Challenges

• Advent of Code

• Exercism

• One Billion Row Challenge

• Gossip Glomers

Concurrency

• Concurrency vs. Parallelism

• Coroutines

• Mutex vs. Semaphore

• Data Race vs. Race Condition

Software Engineering

Code Health

• Premature Abstractions

• You Aren’t Gonna Need It (YAGNI)

• Focus on Product Ideas, Not Requirements

• Cognitive Load

• Readability

• Simplifying Complex if Statements

• Cohesion

• Coupling

Testing

Unit Tests

• Common Arguments Against Unit Tests

• 10 Unit Tests Properties

• Line vs. Branch Coverage

• Unit Tests As Documentation

• Test Behavior, Not Implementation

• Test-Driven Development (TDD)

• Avoiding Logic in Tests

• Code Coverage

Databases

Database Fundamentals

• ACID

• The CAP Theorem

• The PACELC Theorem

• Safety and Liveness

• Transactions

• Isolation Level

• Consistency Model

• Consensus

Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems Performance

• Latency and User Experience

Reliability

Reliability Fundamentals

• Reliability

• Graceful Degradation

• Adaptive LIFO

• Resilient, Fault-tolerant, Robust, or Reliable?

Systems

Soft Skills & Communication

Biases

• Cognitive Biases

• Confirmation Bias

• Streetlight Effect

• Survivor Bias

Critical Thinking

• Lateral Thinking

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