The Coder Cafe Season 1 (The Coder Cafe Season 1)
The Coder Cafe Season 1
Timeless Concepts for Software Engineers
About the Book
Missing direction in your tech career? The Coder Cafe Season 1 gives you a clear path. Drawn from the first year of The Coder Cafe newsletter, it's a single, carefully sequenced journey. Each section covers a foundational, timeless concept, the building blocks of a strong engineering career. Across six chapters—Programming, Testing, Distributed Systems, Reliability, Systems Thinking, and Beyond Code—you'll get practical guidance to master the fundamentals and grow as an engineer.
This isn't a greatest-hits dump. It's a season. Read sequentially, or jump to the concept you need. Whether you're a software engineer, a DevOps professional, or an SRE, you'll gain skills you can use now.
Get cozy, grab a coffee, and welcome to The Coder Cafe Season 1.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Programming
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Arrays vs. Linked Lists
- Binary Heaps
- Graphs
- Topological Sort
- Ford-Fulkerson Algorithm
- Concurrency
- Concurrency vs. Parallelism
- Coroutines
- Mutex vs. Semaphore
- Data Race vs. Race Condition
- Functional Programming
- Partially Applied Functions vs. Currying
- Functors, Applicatives, and Monads
- Code Health
- Premature Abstractions
- You Aren’t Gonna Need It (YAGNI)
- Focus on Product Ideas, Not Requirements
- Cognitive Load
- Readability
- Simplifying Complex if Statements
- Cohesion
- Coupling
- Nested Code
- Tidy First?
- What Makes Code Beautiful
- Organic Growth vs. Controlled Growth
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Chapter 2: Testing
- Fundamentals
- Avoiding Logic in Tests
- Code Coverage
- Line vs. Branch Coverage
- Property-Based Testing
- Unit Tests
- Common Arguments Against Unit Tests
- 10 Unit Tests Properties
- Unit Tests As Documentation
- Test Behavior, Not Implementation
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Fundamentals
- Chapter 3: Distributed Systems
- Databases
- ACID
- The CAP Theorem
- The PACELC Theorem
- Safety and Liveness
- Transactions
- Consensus
- Consistency Model
- Isolation Level
- Exploring Database Isolation Levels
- Availability Models
- System Design
- Probabilistic Increment
- Latency and User Experience
- Bloom Filters
- Working on Complex Systems
- Databases
- Chapter 4: Reliability
- Fundamentals
- Reliability
- Graceful Degradation
- Adaptive LIFO
- Resilient, Fault-tolerant, Robust, or Reliable?
- Fail Open vs. Fail Closed
- Soft vs. Hard Dependency
- Analysis
- Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
- Lurking Variables
- Fundamentals
- Chapter 5: Systems
- Computer Architecture
- Instruction Pipelining
- Simultaneous Multithreading
- Linux
- Linux Soft vs. Hard Lockup
- Computer Architecture
- Chapter 6: Beyond Code
- Communication
- The XY Problem
- 10 Rules I Learned About Technical Writing
- Cognitive Biases
- Understanding Cognitive Biases
- Confirmation Bias
- Streetlight Effect
- Survivor Bias
- Critical Thinking
- Lateral Thinking
- Keeping a Mistake Journal
- Knowledge Management
- Second Brain
- Mindset
- Don’t Be Ashamed to Say “I Don’t Know”
- Don’t Forget About Your Mental Health
- Communication
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