Xudong Liang (Brandon)

Software Engineering Resource

Multi-threading, Multi-processing, (Single-threaded) Concurrency

• Multiprocessing vs. Multithreading vs. Asyncio
• AsyncIO, Threading, and Multiprocessing
• Forking vs. Spawn
• (Python) Global Interpreter Lock - why Python is not good at multithreading
• Python Concurrency: Making sense of asyncio
• Python behind the scenes #13: the GIL and its effects on Python multithreading

Data Structure, Algorithm

• Memoization (1D, 2D and 3D)
• Understanding the Coin Change Problem with Dynamic Programming
• Retiring a Great Inerview Problem
• Memoization algorithm time complexity
• Union Find algorithm
• Union Find time complexity

Python

• What does the "yield" keyword do?
• ABC vs. Protocol
• Protocols in Python - why you need them
• collections.abc — Abstract Base Classes for Containers

Debugging

• Finding the root cause of hung Python test
• Python pytest hangs forever

Kafka

• Kafka Partitions and Consumer Groups in 6 mins

Load Testing & Network

• Load Testing and the Requests per Second Curve
• Best practices for load testing Amazon SageMaker real-time inference endpoints
• Generating custom loads with Locust
• How to get to the bottom of Network Timeout Issues
• Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr From First Principles (Compute-bound, Memory-bound, Overhead-bound)

Cloud & Infrastructure Management

• The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Announces Argo has Graduated
• An introduction to GitOps and Argo

API & Protocol

• How to choose HTTP or gRPC for your next API
• What’s the Difference Between gRPC and REST?

Unicode, UTF-8, Ascii, Byte, Character

• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Go

• Effective Go - Concurrency - Goroutines

Vim

• Python-mode, a Python IDE for Vim
• Vim: you don't need NERDtree or (maybe) netrw