Reading List

The best introduction to distributed systems and data fundamentals.

A hands-on guide to building a complete programming language from scratch—first as a tree-walking interpreter, then a fast bytecode VM.

Deep dive into how databases work under the hood.

The Rust book is the official guide to learning Rust—ownership, lifetimes, and fearless concurrency from the ground up.

A classic essay that explains why async functions split your codebase into “red” and “blue” worlds—and how that colors everything you build.

Learning new languages, even if you never ship them, rewires your brain, handing you fresh lenses that turn once-impossible problems into trivial ones.

SQL’s Achilles heel: it stores data in flat tables but UIs need hierarchies, so we drown in joins, round-trips and glue code to re-shape what the query language was never built to return.

First article of a 4-part series making an SQL database from scratch.