Reads.
Books and research papers that shaped how I think about systems, security, and building products — with notes on what stuck.
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NeurIPS · 2017
Attention Is All You Need
Ashish Vaswani et al.
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Attention Is All You Need
Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin
SOSP · 2007
Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store
Giuseppe DeCandia et al.
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Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store
Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall, Werner Vogels
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
