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Every Programmer Should Know 🤔

A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know.

☝️These are resources I can recommend to every programmer regardless of their skill level or tech stack

Highly opinionated 💣. Not backed by science.Comes in no particular order ♻️

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P.S. Youdon't need to know all of that by heart to be a programmer.But knowing the stuff will help you become better! 💪

P.P.S.Contributions are welcome!

Introduction

Falsehoods

Awesome Falsehoods💊 Curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.Check for things you do not know about Strings, Addresses, Names, Numbers, Emails, Timezones and Dates and more.

Algorithms

Data Structures

Numbers

Strings

Latency

Time

📄Some notes about time
🎥The Problem with Timezones

Memory

📄What every Programmer should know about memory

Distributed Systems

RegExp

Security

📖Security Programming
📄Rolling Your Own Crypto
📄Cryptographic Right Answers
📄An Open Letter to Developers Everywhere (About Cryptography)
📖Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know
📄OWASP Top 10 - The "gold standard" for web application vulnerabilities.
📄Portswigger Academy - Practical Labs for learning about web application security.
📄Web Application Exploits and Defenses
📄Hashing, Encryption and Encoding

UX/Usability

SEO

📄What Every Programmer Should Know About SEO

Architecture

Remote Work

Problem Solving

Soft Skills

Mental Health

Awesome Mental Health
A curated list of awesome articles, websites and resources about mental health in the software industry.

Papers on Programming

❤️Papers We Love
📰The Morning Paper
📜What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
📜Go To Statement Considered Harmful
📰Arxiv
📰Sci-hub

Free Books on Programming

📚Free Programming Books

Services ⚡

Licenses

Where To Look For Further Info

Coding Practice Sites ⚡

Platform Engineering

A modern discipline that evolved from DevOps and SRE principles, focused on improving developer experience and productivity by building and managing self-service tools and workflows, often through an Internal Developer Platform (IDP). The goal is to reduce cognitive load on developers and streamline the path to production.

What is Platform Engineering?
- Microsoft Learn: What is platform engineering?
  A comprehensive overview of the practice, its goals, and core capabilities.
- Atlassian: What is Platform Engineering?
  A great explanation of the roles and responsibilities of a platform team.
Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
- internaldeveloperplatform.org: What is an IDP?
  A foundational resource explaining the concept of an IDP as the core product of a platform team.
- Atlassian: Internal Developer Platform Guide
  A deep dive into the benefits and best practices for building an IDP.
Golden Paths (Paved Roads)
- Spotify Engineering: How we use Golden Paths to solve fragmentation
  The original concept from Spotify, explaining how they use "opinionated and supported paths" to guide developers.
- Red Hat: What is a Golden Path for software development?
- A clear article on how Golden Paths provide templates and standardized workflows to increase efficiency.