README.md

Gauntlet

Guides, Articles, Podcasts, Videos and Notes to Build Reliable Large-Scale Distributed Systems.

💮 Guides:

• Scaling Web Applications with NGINX, Part 1: Load Balancing.
• Running Nginx as Web Server/Reverse Proxy for Python Apps.
• Running Nginx as Web Server/Reverse Proxy for PHP Apps.
• How To Install LEMP stack on Ubuntu 18.04.
• Manage Log Files with logrotate on Ubuntu.
• Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 Edition.
• Automate and abstract: Lessons from Facebook on engineering for scale.
• How To Install Prometheus on Ubuntu 16.04.
• How To Create a Kubernetes 1.10 Cluster Using Kubeadm on Ubuntu 16.04.
• How to Install Kubernetes on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux.
• Container Tutorials.
• Microservices by Martin Fowler.
• How To Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 18.04.
• How To Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 20.04.
• Object Storage vs. Block Storage Services.
• System Design Primer.
• Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet.
• How To Configure a Galera Cluster with MariaDB on Ubuntu 18.04 Servers.
• How To Install MongoDB on Ubuntu 20.04
• How To Configure a MongoDB Replica Set on Ubuntu 20.04
• How To Manage Data with MongoDB
• Modernizing Applications for Kubernetes.
• How to Set Up an NFS Mount on Ubuntu 18.04.
• Setting Up LXD 16.04.
• Setting Up LXD 16.04.
• Securing Ubuntu VPS with Linux Firewall.
• How To Create a Multi-Node MySQL Cluster on Ubuntu 18.04.
• How To Migrate a Docker Compose Workflow to Kubernetes.
• Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views.
• Configure Zabbix to Securely Monitor Remote Servers on Ubuntu 18.04.
• Troubleshoot Issues in MySQL.
• Install And Configure QEMU In Ubuntu.
• Introducing go-qemu and go-libvirt.
• Orchestrator at GitHub.
• Containers from Scratch.
• How To Configure BIND as a Private Network DNS Server on Ubuntu 18.04.
• How To Deploy and Manage Your DNS using DNSControl on Ubuntu 18.04.
• Take OpenTracing for a HotROD ride.
• Monitoring, Microservices, Self-Healing and the Connection to “AntiFragile” Systems.
• How to break a Monolith into Microservices.
• Refactoring Module Dependencies.
• Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines.
• Container Ready Applications with Twelve-Factor App and Microservices Architecture.
• How To Setup a etcd Cluster.
• Unicode and Character Sets.
• Customizing Go Binaries with Build Tags.
• Uber Go Guide.
• How Sharding Works.
• The Vert.x Worker Model.
• An Overview of Go's Tooling.
• Logging Levels.
• Hacker Laws.
• The actor model in 10 minutes.
• RabbitMQ Exchanges, routing keys and bindings.
• Consistent Hashing - An Efficient & Scalable Data Distribution Algorithm.
• How To Install Cassandra and Run a Single-Node Cluster on Ubuntu 14.04
• How To Run a Multi-Node Cluster Database with Cassandra on Ubuntu 14.04
• K8S CSI Developer Documentation.
• Kafka Cluster Connect
• An Introduction to Networking Terminology, Interfaces, and Protocols.
• Understanding IP Addresses, Subnets, and CIDR Notation for Networking.
• Functools - The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python
• VPCs, subnets, and gateways – fundamentals for working with containers in AWS
• AWS Networking Fundamentals
• How to Configure a Droplet as a VPC Gateway
• DigitalOcean VPC Service
• Use VPC Networks to Secure Your Servers and Other Best Practices
• An Introduction to PHP-FPM Tuning
• Handling Unix Signals in Python
• How To Add Swap Space on Ubuntu 20.04
• The Life of a Packet Through Consul Service Mesh
• Connecting to a private network from GitHub-hosted Actions runners
• Difference between Internet Gateway and NAT Gateway - AWS
• AWS Networking Masterclass - VPC
• Terraform workspace explained!
• Kubernetes Monitoring
• Network issues simulation: How to test against bad network conditions
• How to Use the Linux Traffic Control
• Getting Started with Tilt
• Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt
• Consul Service Discovery for HAProxy
• Load Balancing with HAProxy Service Discovery Integration
• Turning IPTables into a TCP load balancer for fun and profit
• Iptables Essentials: Common Firewall Rules and Commands
• Backend Basics
• Troubleshooting SYNs to LISTEN Sockets dropped message from Netstat
• Prometheus Alertmanager Best Practices

💮 Articles:

• Are You a Doer or a Talker?
• How to Manage Technical Debt.
• In Pursuit of Production Minimalism.
• The Netflix Simian Army.
• Strangler Fig Application.
• 12 Factor.
• 12 Design Principles.
• Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes.
• Technical Debt Is Like Tetris.
• Write code that’s easy to delete, and easy to debug too.
• Semantic Import Versioning (Go & Versioning).
• Making sense of MVP.
• You've only added two lines.
• (A few) Ops Lessons We All Learn The Hard Way.
• Cloud Design Patterns.
• Python & Async Simplified.
• Modules, monoliths, and microservices.
• Principles of Chaos Engineering.
• The Soul Exhaustion Struggle.
• Decouple your Symfony application using Domain Events.
• Circuit Breaker pattern.
• The Broken Window Theory.
• The Service Mesh Manifesto
• Building Blocks of TCP
• Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
• Git from the inside out
• How We Saved 70K Cores Across 30 Mission-Critical Services
• How to Estimate How Many Website Visitors Your Server Can Deal With.
• Latency Is Everywhere And It Costs You Sales - How To Crush It
• Waltz: A Distributed Write-Ahead Log.
• Write-Ahead Log.
• Bitcask - a log-structured fast KV store
• Platform Teams
• After All These Years, the World is Still Powered by C Programming
• What is Anycast
• How to use Kubernetes events for effective alerting and monitoring
• 5 Reasons to Use Elixir in Production
• A week with Elixir
• Sitting on the bench
• We stand with the Underdogs
• What is CI/CD observability, and how are we paving the way for more observable pipelines?

💮 Engineering Blogs:

• 8thlight Blog.
• Quora Engineering.
• Reddit Engineering.
• Shopify Engineering.
• Slack Engineering Blog.
• Spotify Labs.
• Twitter Engineering.
• Yelp Engineering Blog.
• YouTube Engineering and Developers Blog.
• Import.io Blog.
• Instagram Engineering.
• LinkedIn Engineering Blog.
• Medium Engineering.
• Mixpanel Blog.
• Grafana
• Netflix Tech Blog.
• Pinterest Engineering.
• Airbnb Engineering and Data Science.
• Booking.com Tech Blog.
• Dropbox Tech Blog.
• eBay Tech Blog.
• Etsy Code as Craft.
• Stripe Engineering.
• Semaphore CI.
• Tailscale.
• AWS Builders.
• Changelog.
• Reddit.
• IBM Developer.
• Digitalocean Tutorials.
• Digitalocean Tech Talks.
• Monzo Technology
• Cloudflare
• YoLinux
• TLDR Engineering
• Hashicorp
• Gitlab
• Redhat
• Highscalability
• .Cult
• Babbel Tech.
• Learn X in Y minutes
• Toptal
• Fly.IO
• Build Your Own
• Spacelift
• Linux Administration

💮 Personal Blogs:

• Brandur Blog.
• Martin fowler Blog.
• Programming is Terrible.
• Joel on Software.
• Derek Sivers.
• Coding Horror.
• Yourbasic.
• Simple is better than complex.
• Neil on Software.
• Netmeister.
• Understand Legacy Code.
• The Modern JavaScript Tutorial.
• Learning Rust.
• Tutorial Works.
• High Performance Browser Networking.
• Tomgregory.
• Going the distance
• Sbcode Tuturials
• The Pragmatic Engineer
• dhh
• Jason Fried

💮 Awesome List:

• Awesome Scalability
• Awesome
• nginx Admins Handbook
• Mongo Playbook
• Awesome SRE
• Awesome Prometheus Alerts
• UML Sequence Diagram

💮 Videos:

• dot Conferences.
• Hatch Talk Series: Three Startup Failures... And The Success That Made Up For It All.
• Scaling Instagram.
• Servers For Hackers.
• Microservices at Squarespace - Doug Jones and Kevin Lynch.
• Microservices.com Practitioner Summit 2017.
• Jaeger: Distributed Tracing at Uber.
• Strangling the Monolith
• The Role of Catastrophic Failure in Software Design.
• What is the event loop anyway?
• Observability 3 ways logging metrics tracing.
• Breaking Things on Purpose.
• Creating event-driven microservices: the why, how and what by Katherine Stanley
• Building Streaming Microservices with Apache Kafka
• Hashicorp Learn
• The Soul of Erlang and Elixir
• Rust Programming Course for Beginners
• Rust Crash Course
• Sales Is Just Bad Marketing By GaryVee.
• Tech Talks
• Getting started with Grafana 8
• Grafana 9 deep dive
• ObservabilityCON 2021
• Prometheus: The Documentary
• AWS Networking Fundamentals
• Elixir Casts
• What runs ChatGPT? Inside Microsoft's AI supercomputer
• Create a Terraform provider with the Plugin Framework

💮 Podcasts:

• Software Engineering Daily
• Podcasts for Developers
• Cloud Chats
• GaryVee

💮 References:

• Devdocs

💮 Observability:

• Intro to Grafana Mimir
• Deep dive into Grafana 9

💮 Courses:

• The Complete Elixir and Phoenix Bootcamp
• Apache Kafka Series - Learn Apache Kafka for Beginners v3
• DevOps with Terraform
• CloudCasts
• Ultimate AWS Certified Developer Associate 2024 NEW DVA-C02
• Istio Hands-On for Kubernetes
• Learn DevOps: Infrastructure Automation With Terraform

💮 Languages:

• Javascript Language
• Python Language
• NodeJs Language
• PHP Language
• Golang Language
• Rust Language
• Elixir School
• Elixir Language

💮 Books:

• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
• Microservice Architecture: Aligning Principles, Practices, and Culture
• Site Reliability Engineering & The Site Reliability Workbook
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Clean Code
• Clean Architecture
• Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
• Building Secure & Reliable Systems
• Designing Data Intensive Applications
• High Performance Browser Networking
• Cassandra The Definitive Guide
• Kafka Definitive Guide
• MongoDB: The Definitive Guide
• The Rust Programming Language
• The Rust Reference
• Prometheus: Up & Running
• Joy of Elixir
• Introducing Elixir
• Terraform: Up & Running Code

💮 Cloud Free Credits:

• $300 from Google Cloud.
• 12 Month free from AWS.
• ~ $1700 free from Alibaba Cloud.
• IBM Cloud Free Tier.
• Microsoft Azure Free Tier
• $200 from Digitalocean.
• $100 from Linode
• OCI Cloud Free Tier
• $250 from Vultr.
• Amazon EC2 AMI Locator

💮 AI & ML:

• Llama
• OLlama
• huggingface
• Integrating Llama 2 with Hugging Face and Langchain
• Deep Learning on Core with ML in a Box
• How to Create Custom Datasets To Train Llama-2
• Run Llama-2 Locally within Text Generation WebUI
• Prompt Engineering
• Paperspace
• RAG Architecture
• LangChain
• Chroma Vector DB
• Deploy Llama 2 for your Entire Organisation
• Greg Kamradt - Data Indy
• Learn LangChain
• Cosine similarity using GPT models
• Introduction to Machine Learning with Python
• Introduction to Machine Learning with scikit-learn
• Email Spam Detection using Machine Learning Scikit Python
• CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python
• Elevating Code Quality Through LLM Integration