Interesting Topics

Cryptography

• How WhatsApp Ensures Chat Security with End-to-End Encryption
• Demystifying the Signal Protocol for End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)

Indexing

• How companies like Uber, Google and Airbnb Disrupt Industries with Location Intelligence?
• UH3: Uber’s Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index

Streaming

• How Spotify Aligned CDN Services for a Lightning Fast Streaming Experience

Concurrency

• Going Infinite, handling 1 millions websockets connections in Go / Eran Yanay
• Amortizing Cross-Core Coordination: Cursor Caching and Batch Processing

Distributed Systems

• TLA and TLA+
• Correctness proofs for distributed systems
• Clock synchronization in distributed systems

Database

• Database Internals By Alex Petrov - Explanations By Ben Dicken
• Performance Engineering at TigerBeetle

Observability and Profiling

• Go Profiling and Observability from Scratch - Felix Geisendörfer

Garbage Collector

• The garbage collector / Maya Rosecrance

Miscellaneous

• Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency

File Systems

• Building a Distributed Filesystem for Scalable Research