The Missing Semester of My CS Education

Primary Goals: Learn topics related to you know what

Phase 1 - dev-v0.0.1 (3 months)

Streaming

1. Grokking Streaming Systems
2. Building Event-Driven Microservices, 2nd Edition
3. Building Resilient Streaming Analytics Systems on Google Cloud

Rust

1. The Rust Programming Language Book
2. Rust Programming Specialization
3. Rustlings
4. Rust Development Classes
5. Rust By Example
6. The Rustonomicon
7. Web Development with Rust
8. Rust exercises on Exercism

Next Steps

Finance

1. Financial Data Engineering
2. Analyzing Time Series and Sequential Data Specialization
3. Trading Strategies in Emerging Markets Specialization
4. Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Finance Specialization

Data Engineering

1. Data Engineer Learning Path in GCP
2. Redpanda University
3. feast
4. RAPIDS: GPU Accelerated Data Science
5. Accelerate Data Science Workflows with Zero Code Changes
6. Accelerating End-to-End Data Science Workflows
7. Analyzing and Visualizing Large Data Interactively using Accelerated Computing
8. Best Practices in Feature Engineering for Tabular Data With GPU Acceleration
9. Synthetic Tabular Data Generation Using Transformers
10. Designing Data-Intensive Applications
11. Data Engineering Design Patterns
12. Designing Event-Driven Systems
13. Software Architecture Patterns for Big Data
14. Streaming Systems
15. Streaming Databases

GCP/Platform

1. Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud
2. Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

General

1. Designing Distributed Systems, 2nd Edition
2. Software Architecture Patterns for Big Data
3. UvA Deep Learning Tutorials
4. Computer Architecture
5. Introduction to Operating Systems Specialization
6. High-Performance and Parallel Computing Specialization
7. CS149 Parallel Computing, video
8. I/O-efficient algorithms
9. Data Structures and Performance

Optional

GCP

• Data Engineering, Big Data, and Machine Learning on GCP Specialization

LLM Related

• Natural Language Processing for Semantic Search
• Faiss: The Missing Manual
• LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide
• The Ultra-Scale Playbook: Training LLMs on GPU Clusters
• DevOps-Projects
• LLM Course

Generals

• School of SRE
• Microservices Patterns
• gRPC Microservices in Go
• Software Engineering at Google
• System Design: The complete course
• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
• Designing Distributed Systems

Algorithms

• Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures

Rust

• Rust Programming
• Programming with Rust Specialization

JAX

• Jaxformer: Scaling Modern Transformers

ML Hardware & Systems

• Stanford MLSys Seminar
• Machine Learning Systems

ML Compilers

• Compilers for Machine Learning
• Machine Learning Compiler
• MLIR and MLIR Components Talks

NVIDIA Triton

• NVIDIA Dynamo Platform

CUDA

• CUDA Mastery
• NVIDIA Self-Paced Courses
• GPU Programming Specialization
• Parallel and High Performance Computing

Hacking:

• Root Me Website

Linux

• pwn.dojos
• Introduction to Linux – Full Course for Beginners
• Linux Networking: How The Kernel Handles A TCP Connection
• Rearchitecting Linux Storage Stack for µs Latency and High Throughput
• glibc Heap Series

Containers:

• Fork in the Road: Reflections and Optimizations for Cold Start Latency in Production Serverless Systems
• Fast, lazy container loading in modal.com by Jonathon Belotti
• How Modal built their own container runtime, file system, GPU resource solver, and more

Compiler

• A Gentle Introduction to LLVM IR
• Triton Conference 2024: Morning Session
• Flash Attention derived and coded from first principles with Triton (Python)