A Substack with deep technical articles on CPython internals, GPU computing, and machine learning papers.
Commenters recommend its CPython internals series, including the explanation of how much C code runs for "a + b" in Python.
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers: https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/how-instagram-scaled-to-14-million
Where LLMs are headed: https://blog.quastor.org/p/language-models-future
SwiftUI at Airbnb: https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/10/airbnb-transitioning-swiftui/
GPU Computing Explained: https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/gpu-computing
Building and operating S3: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/07/building-and-operating-a-pretty-big-storage-system.html
Meta’s new Serverless platform: https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/meta-xfaas-serverless-functions-explained
The author has a number of other good articles going into the depths of CPython here: https://codeconfessions.substack.com/t/cpython-internals.
One of them goes into how many lines of C it takes to execute "a + b" in Python (great explanation, but you have to go to the comments for the answer!). I remember one of my professors opening up gdb and printing every C line to execute "print("hello, world")", and the author's writings give a better understanding of what some of those lines are.
I'd be very interested in a follow-up post going in-depth on the ins and outs of list comprehension.
I started one newsletter/blog couple of months back. I write blog style posts where I write detailed articles on technical topics for example explaining the AlphaDev results from DeepMind. And I also write a links digest style post every week as well where I share some interesting articles and resources every week.
https://codeconfessions.substack.com
This one as well by a former intern from a decade ago who now writes on python and ml internals:
How Many Lines of C it Takes to Execute a + b in Python?
https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/a-war-story-involving-a-python-a
gzip & knn
https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/decoding-the-acl-paper-gzip-and-knn