Resources

by Martin Kleppmann

The definitive guide to building reliable, scalable, and maintainable data systems. Covers replication, partitioning, transactions, and stream processing with uncommon depth.

by Alex Xu

Practical walkthroughs of real-world system design problems. Great for building intuition on tradeoffs before you need to make them in production.

by Sam Newman

The go-to reference for microservices architecture — from service decomposition to deployment, observability, and security.

by Donovan & Kernighan

The definitive Go book. Dense, precise, and written by the language designers. Read it twice.

by Katherine Cox-Buday

Deep dive into Go's concurrency primitives — goroutines, channels, sync primitives, and patterns for writing correct concurrent code.

by Teiva Harsanyi

Practical, mistake-driven learning. Covers common pitfalls in Go with clear explanations and fixes. Excellent for intermediate Go developers.

by Robert C. Martin

Principles for building software that is easy to change and maintain. Focuses on separating concerns, dependency inversion, and testable architecture.

by Michael T. Nygard

Patterns for building software that survives the real world — circuit breakers, bulkheads, timeouts, and stability patterns every senior engineer should know.

by Rob Pike (Go author)

The clearest explanation of the difference between concurrency and parallelism, using Go as the lens. Essential viewing before writing concurrent Go code.

by Li Hongyi

Why most large software projects fail and how to think about software quality at an organisational level.

by CNCF

Surprisingly good first-principles explanation of what Kubernetes is and why it exists.

by TablePlus Inc.

Clean, fast GUI for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and more. The best database client I've used.

by Warp

A modern terminal with AI assistance, command history search, and collaborative features. Far better than iTerm2 for daily use.

by Kong / Bruno

API testing clients. Bruno is the open-source, Git-friendly option; Insomnia is more polished. Both beat Postman for local development.

by Excalidraw

Hand-drawn style diagrams in the browser. Perfect for system design sketches and architecture diagrams.

by Alex Xu

Weekly system design deep-dives with excellent diagrams. Consistently high quality.

by Gergely Orosz

In-depth analysis of the software engineering industry — how big tech works, engineering culture, and career insights.

by Golang Weekly

Curated Go news, articles, and projects every week.