Books & Learning
Curated collection of technical books, research papers, and learning resources
Featured Reviews
Reading Hofstadter's masterpiece in 2025 feels uncannily relevant. At a time when AI is reshaping our sense of self and intelligence, this Renaissance cathedral of ideas explores what it means to think, to perceive, to be human.
Read Review →Some nights I feel like Taleb has stolen my voice, sharpened it with Mediterranean salt, and thrown it back at me. A reflection on chaos, growth, and learning to thrive on volatility in an age that worships false stability.
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Building Secure and Reliable Systems
O'Reilly's comprehensive guide to security and reliability engineering practices at scale. Essential reading for platform security engineers.
- Google SRE
- Security Patterns
- Systems Design
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann's masterpiece on distributed systems, data modeling, and the challenges of building scalable applications.
- Distributed Systems
- Data Architecture
- Scalability
Security & Architecture
Building Secure and Reliable Systems
Google SRE's comprehensive guide to security and reliability engineering practices at scale. Essential reading for platform security engineers.
Bug Bounty Bootcamp
Vickie Li's practical guide to finding and reporting web vulnerabilities. Perfect for getting started with security research.
Hacking Kubernetes
Threat-driven analysis and defense strategies for securing Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native applications.
Secure By Design
Integrating security principles into software design and development workflows for proactive threat mitigation.
AI/ML & Data Science
Grokking Deep Learning
Andrew Trask's intuitive approach to understanding neural networks without overwhelming mathematics. Perfect for building foundational intuition.
The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
Andriy Burkov's concise yet comprehensive overview of machine learning. Everything you need to know in 100 pages.
The Developer's Playbook for Large Language Model Security
Essential guide for securing LLM applications, covering prompt injection, data leakage, and model governance.
Genius Makers
Cade Metz's compelling story of the mavericks who brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the world.
Research Papers & Whitepapers
Security Research
Latest security research from academia and industry, covering new attack vectors, defense mechanisms, and security frameworks.
- IEEE Security
- USENIX Security
- ACM CCS
Systems Papers
Foundational and cutting-edge papers on distributed systems, database internals, and large-scale system design.
- OSDI
- SOSP
- NSDI