Programming (General)

• [Book] Donald Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming (Latest Vol: 4B)
• [Book] Michael Kerrisk: The Linux Programming Interface
• [Video] Linus Torvalds: Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
• [Post] Russ Cox: Memory Models
• [Video] Rob Pike: Simplicity is Complicated

AI

• [Video] AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary
• [Paper] David Silver, etc: Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge
• [Book] Ian Goodfellow, etc: Deep Learning

Data Structure and Algorithm

• [Paper] Martin Farach-Colton, etc: Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering . Also see Talk Video
• [Video] Orson Peters: Pattern-defeating Quicksort
• [Paper] William Pugh: Skip Lists: A Probabilistic Alternative to Balanced Trees
• [Paper] Philippe Flajolet, etc: HyperLogLog: the analysis of a near-optimal cardinality estimation algorithm
• [Paper] Guy L. Steele Jr., etc: Fast Splittable Pseudorandom Number Generators
• [Paper] Donald E. Knuth: Dancing Links
• [Paper] Anthony Fox, etc: Spatio-temporal Indexing in Non-relational Distributed Databases [GeoHash]
• [Paper] Burton H. Bloom: Space/Time Trade-offs in Hash Coding with Allowable Errors

Compiler

• [Book] K.D. Cooper and L. Torczon: Engineering a Compiler
• [Book] Robert Nystrom: Crafting Interpreters

Distributed System

• [Book] Martin Kleppmann: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• [Paper] Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing
• [Paper] Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
• [Paper] The Google File System
• [Paper] Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store
• [Paper] ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems
• [Paper] (Raft) In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm

Code Base

Redis

The source code is available on Github and is remarkably clean and easy to follow. Redis showcases a variety of interesting data structures and demonstrates numerous advanced system programming techniques—sometimes referred to as the "dark arts" of systems programming.

SQLite

Exceptionally well-documented, SQLite provides detailed explanations of its stable file format, function APIs, and techniques for handling atomic commits. It is a highly reliable system that has proven its robustness over decades and remains a solid choice for developers. The book Using SQLite also offers valuable insights from the user's perspective, making it an excellent companion for understanding and working with the database.