Bookshelf

things i've read, am reading, or have queued up.

A book makes it here only if it changed something about how I write code or look at a problem. Annotations are kept short on purpose.

systems & performance

read Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective . Bryant, O'Hallaron Single best mental model of the machine I have read.
read Effective Modern C++ . Scott Meyers Made me stop writing C++03 in disguise.
reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications . Martin Kleppmann Distributed systems vocabulary, finally concrete.
queue The Linux Programming Interface . Michael Kerrisk For when I need to know exactly what a syscall is doing.
queue What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory . Ulrich Drepper The cache hierarchy paper, read as a slow book.

reading Trading and Exchanges . Larry Harris Slow, careful, canonical. Where market microstructure starts.
queue Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading . Cartea, Jaimungal, Penalva Bridge from microstructure intuition to working math.
queue Inside the Black Box . Rishi Narang For the shape of a quant firm, not the math.

read Competitive Programmer's Handbook . Antti Laaksonen Where I started. Free PDF, still the best on-ramp.
read Competitive Programming 4 . Halim, Halim Reference more than read-through. Topic by topic.

read The Art of Doing Science and Engineering . Richard Hamming On taste, persistence, and choosing what to work on.

2019 Langdale, Lemire . Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second The simdjson paper. Worth reading twice. Worth implementing once.
2013 Lemire, Boytsov . Decoding Billions of Integers per Second Clean entry to thinking in SIMD throughput, not scalar steps.
2011 Thompson et al. . Disruptor: High Performance Alternative to Bounded Queues LMAX. Required reading for anyone who wants to move events fast.