Papers
Papers (and articles/posts/RFCs/docs/etc.) I’ve read, am reading, and intend to read or reread. You may find these interesting, too.
Networking Protocols
- A TCP/IP Tutorial (RFC 1180)
- HTTP Semantics (RFC 9110)
- Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities (RFC 1034)
- Domain Names - Implementation and Specification (RFC 1035)
- TLS 1.3 (RFC 8446)
- The WebSocket Protocol (RFC 6455)
- SSH Protocol Architecture (RFC 4251)
- QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport (RFC 9000)
Blog Posts
- Read the Code, Not the Profile (Reasonably Polymorphic - blog)
- As Code (Mitchell Hashimoto)
- Pact vs OpenAPI: Choosing the right foundation for your API testing strategy (Speakeasy Blog)
- Why We Can’t Have Nice Software (Andrew Kelley - blog)
- Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” (Charity.WTF - blog)
- Beyond Logs, Metrics and Traces (logz.io Blog)
- My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects (Mitchell Hashimoto)
- Why Don’t You Use … (Brendan Gregg’s Blog)
- What is Observability (Brendan Gregg’s Blog)
- Poor Disk Performance (Brendan Gregg’s Blog)
- Protobuffers Are Wrong (Reasonably Polymorphic - blog)
- Of Ideas and Men (Reasonably Polymorphic - blog)
AI (specifically on LLMs, Agents, etc.)
- A Deep Dive Into MCP and the Future of AI Tooling (a16z Content)