







The Patterns of Scalable, Reliable, and Performant Large-Scale Systems
A distributed systems reliability glossary
A list of key concepts for building and testing reliable distributed systems, with basic definitions and deep references.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and... - Selection from Designing Data-Intensive Applications [Book]
GitHub - tunjid/heron: A graceful multiplatform bluesky client
A graceful multiplatform bluesky client. Contribute to tunjid/heron development by creating an account on GitHub.
Jacky Kwok on Twitter / X
Scaling self-verification with DeepSeek V4 Flash beats Claude Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, while being 11x cheaper 💰As open-source models become more capable, they can now generate large numbers of high-quality candidate solutions and verify their own outputs at very low… https://t.co/as2HtyHzzW pic.twitter.com/XzVBgr5JPz— Jacky Kwok (@jackyk02) August 17, 2026

Dynamo | Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles
Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant financial consequences and impacts customer trust. The Amazon.com ...

How to Scale a System from 0 to 10 million+ Users
Scaling is a complex topic, but after working at big tech on services handling millions of requests and scaling my own startup (AlgoMaster.io) from scratch, I’ve realized that most systems evolve through a surprisingly similar set of stages as they grow.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) — an O’Reilly book by Martin Kleppmann (The Wild Boar Book)
NoSQL… Big Data… Scalability… CAP Theorem… Eventual Consistency… Sharding…
Distributed Systems lecture series

Build Bigger With Small Ai: Running Small Models Locally
Binepad
Binepad - Enhancing Your Computing Experience Worldwide. Discover a curated selection of high-quality computer peripherals designed to improve productivity and elevate your digital workspace.

Bluefin
The next generation cloud-native Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability.

High-Performance Custom Laptops – Upgradeable & Powerful
Fully configurable desktop replacement laptops and mobile workstations. Upgradeable, powerful, portable.
Why Futhark?
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
An unordered / non-exhaustive list of things that helped scale Bluesky's infra efficiently: + Exiting the cloud (colocation) + HAProxy w/many Node backends + Go w/clever code + ScyllaDB + SQLite w/per user databases + Redis w/many instances + AMD servers w/many cores + Purchasing bandwidth directly