Ask HN: High-quality resources for writing complex systems software?

7 points by overclk64 2y ago ↗ HN

Let's try to gather together some /high-quality/ resources for learning how to write complex systems software.

I'll list off the ones I'm aware of, and if you know of some others, please comment below! :-)

- Crafting interpreters by Bob Nystrom

- Building git by James Coglan

- The raytracer challenge by Jamis Buck

- Codecrafters (docker, redis, git, grep, http server, sqlite, torrent)

- Various awesome lists on Github which aggregate content scattered in blog posts all over the web

- Perhaps some YouTube videos

What about handrolling a kernel, for example?

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yuppie_scum 2y ago ↗

The Google SRE book. The DevOps Handbook.

overclk64 2y ago ↗

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my post. I meant, resources that take you from zero and guide you throughout implementing a complex systems project like the ones I listed out, from scratch.

sargstuff 2y ago ↗

Open BSD software source.

UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads: Communication, Concurrency and Threads 2nd Edition by K Robbins and S. Robbins

minix from scrath [0]; linux from scratch[1];

[1] : https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

[0] : https://github.com/o-oconnell/minixfromscratch