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Whoever created this, huge respect.
webhacklist.com/
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One GitHub repo can teach you more about Kubernetes than 50 tutorials.
Build a cluster by hand instead:
github.com/kelseyhightower/k…
No scripts. No shortcuts. You'll understand what every managed service is doing for you and never fear a cluster again.
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How Your Code Runs: The Journey of a Program Through the CPU
This blog post aims to explain the inner workings of the CPU by exploring its architecture, and execution flow, and illustrating these concepts with a practical code example.
Read Here: chessman7.substack.com/p/how…
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kind is not a kubernetes cluster. it's one docker daemon wearing a costume. no systemd, no real kubelet, nothing the CKS exam actually tests
k16s runs a real kubeadm cluster you can break and get graded on. free, self-hosted
github.com/immanuwell/k16s-e…
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🚨 If you're serious about DevOps in 2026, bookmark these 9 GitHub repos.
You don't need another 60-hour course. You need better resources.
1. Kubernetes: github.com/kubernetes/kubern…
Don't just use Kubernetes. Read how Kubernetes actually works.
2. System Design Primer: github.com/donnemartin/syste…
One of the best free resources for understanding scalable systems.
3. DevOps Exercises: github.com/bregman-arie/devo…
Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, networking, Ansible, Terraform and more.
4. Awesome Scalability: github.com/binhnguyennus/awe…
Real architecture and scalability resources.
5. Infrathrone: infrathrone.xyz/course/membe…
Practice DevOps Outages and failures & Learn how System breaks.
6. Awesome MLOps: github.com/visenger/awesome-…
If you're moving from DevOps → MLOps, start here.
7. Awesome Observability: github.com/adriannovegil/awe…
Metrics. Logs. Traces. OpenTelemetry. Monitoring.
8. Engineering Blogs: github.com/kilimchoi/enginee…
Read how real engineering teams solve infrastructure problems.
9. Book of Secret Knowledge: github.com/trimstray/the-boo…
Linux, networking, security, debugging and operations.
If I had to restart my DevOps career today: I would spend 30% learning tools.
And 70% understanding systems, failures and production.
Because AI is making syntax cheaper. Engineering judgment isn't getting cheaper.
🚨 Save this.
You'll need these resources more than another "Top 50 kubectl commands" post.
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every CKA/CKS practice lab I tried runs kind. fake nodes, no systemd, no real kubeadm
the real exam runs kubeadm. so I built a simulator k16s that does too. break it, fix it, get graded live. free, self-hosted
github.com/immanuwell/k16s-e…
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1096 pages.
Over the course of these three-and-a-half years since I started my newsletter, I’ve written more than a hundred posts, essays, tutorials.
When I’m asked about what kind of value a paid subscription for The Palindrome offers, I usually point to the archive, which is where all the content lives.
So yesterday, I downloaded all the posts I have written for The Palindrome since its start (December 1st, 2022), filtered out all the miscellaneous ones (like updates on my book, my life, etc.), put them through some light processing (removing CTAs, introductory words, and others), organized and ordered them thematically, then compiled them into a massive book of 1096 pages.
It’s the distillation of all the knowledge I’ve gained in mathematics and machine learning over a decade of experience, and I’m making it available with every paid subscription.
If there's a reason to become a paid subscriber of The Palindrome, this is it!
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most CKS practice labs run kind. the real exam runs kubeadm
this one runs a real kubeadm cluster: 3 mock exams, 51 questions across NetworkPolicy, AppArmor, seccomp, kube-bench, PKI, etcd
every fix graded live. free, self-hosted
github.com/immanuwell/k16s-e…
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DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
Download it (3rd Edition): discrete.openmathbooks.org/p…
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Buy it (updated 4th Edition): amzn.to/46dwXR7
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Read it online…⤵️
A fantastic textbook "Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction" (3rd edition) by Oscar Levin (2025) is now in @ChapterPal's collection.
The book Introduces fundamental concepts in discrete mathematics through interactive problems in counting, sequences, symbolic logic, and graph theory.
The book has 120 figures and 510 exercises, most of which are interactive with feedback.
Read the book with an AI tutor: chapterpal.com/book/1cd4b139…
Chapter 0: Introduction and Preliminaries
## 0.1 What is Discrete Mathematics?
## 0.2 Mathematical Statements
### Atomic and Molecular Statements
### Implications
### Exercises
## 0.3 Sets
### Notation
### Relationships Between Sets
## 0.4 Functions
### Describing Functions
### Image and Inverse Image
Chapter 1: Counting
## 1.1 Additive and Multiplicative Principles
### Principle of Inclusion/Exclusion
### Exercises
### Subsets
### Bit Strings
### Lattice Paths
### Binomial Coefficients
### Pascal’s Triangle
### Exercises
## 1.3 Combinations and Permutations
## 1.4 Combinatorial Proofs
### Patterns in Pascal’s Triangle
### Exercises
## 1.6 Advanced Counting Using PIE
## 1.7 Chapter Summary
### Chapter Review
Chapter 2: Sequences
## 2.1 Describing Sequences
### Sums of Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences
## 2.3 Polynomial Fitting
## 2.4 Solving Recurrence Relations
## 2.5 Induction
### Stamps
### Formalizing Proofs
### Examples
### Strong Induction
### Exercises
### Chapter Review
Chapter 3: Symbolic Logic and Proofs
## 3.1 Propositional Logic
### Truth Tables
## 3.2 Proofs
### Direct Proof
### Proof by Contrapositive
### Proof by Contradiction
### Proof by (counter) Example
### Exercises
## 3.3 Chapter Summary
### Chapter Review
Chapter 4: Graph Theory
### Named Graphs.
### Graph Theory Definitions.
### Exercises
### Properties of Trees
### Rooted Trees
### Non-planar Graphs
### Polyhedra
### Exercises
### Coloring in General
### Coloring Edges
### Exercises
### Hamilton Paths
## 4.6 Matching in Bipartite Graphs
## 4.7 Chapter Summary
### Chapter Review
Chapter 5: Additional Topics
## 5.1 Generating Functions
### Differencing
## 5.2 Introduction to Number Theory
### Divisibility
### Remainder Classes
### Properties of Congruence
### Solving Linear Diophantine Equations
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Today’s deep dive: why Uber moved from Postgres to MySQL.
Really well-written article explaining the problems Uber faced with Postgres and the database internals behind the decision.
uber.com/in/en/blog/postgres…
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C++ · Physics · Calculus — Integrated Stem Bundle for CS students creatifystoredp.gumroad.com/…
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The golden resource
en.algorithmica.org/hpc/cpu-…
Often, a visual playground plays a significant role in understanding many low-level concepts.
Cache Simulator from the CSE 351 is one such tool to understand cache hits, misses, LRU eviction, and write policies - modify onscreen parameters, step through memory accesses, and watch. Great companion.
courses.cs.washington.edu/co…
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🐹 Go: a must-read deep dive into data races and the memory model
Why code that works can still be wrong:
• memory visibility between goroutines
• compiler & CPU reordering
• happens-before guarantees
• atomics, mutexes, channels
func25.dev/posts/go-memory-v…
#golang #go
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Golang Projects I intend to build during this winter arc
1. Distributed key-value store (Raft-based)
2. Concurrent web crawler with rate limiting
3. URL shortener with a real backend
4. Job queue / task scheduler
5. Toy database engine (LSM-tree/B-tree with WAL)
6. Container runtime (mini Docker)
7. Load balancer / reverse proxy
8. Distributed cache with consistent hashing
9. gRPC-based microservices mesh
10. Custom compiler/interpreter for a toy language
11. Distributed File storage
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Distributed systems resources that actually help when you’re on call:
1) DDIA (Kleppmann). Replication, consensus, transactions, streaming, failure modes in one place.
2) Distributed Systems (van Steen, Tanenbaum). Clear models for time, clocks, ordering, and naming.
3) Designing Distributed Systems (Brendan Burns). Small patterns with concrete k8s-ish examples.
4) MIT 6.824 labs. Implement Raft + kv store; you feel partitions and retries, not just read about them.
5) Jepsen blog + reports. Real bugs in real DBs; great for learning what breaks under partitions.
6) Martin Kleppmann’s talks/blog. Practical explanations of logs, streams, and consistency tradeoffs.
7) Kafka docs (esp. consumer groups, offsets, EOS). Production semantics, not academic ones.
8) DynamoDB or Spanner docs. Read the consistency/transaction sections and model real workloads.
9) The Raft paper + visualizer. Short paper, strong intuition for leader election and log replication.
10) Practice project: build an outbox + idempotency key + retrying worker. Add DLQ, backoff, and dedupe; measure p95 and failure recovery time
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Free Mathematics PDF — MIT guide to the mathematical foundations of computer science: bit.ly/4h1bxx7 [1048 pages]




































