Review of the Year 2022

The Review of the year 2022

Things that I find useful in the year 2022 will be shared on this page. The order doesn’t imply anything.

Useful blog posts, articles, books, podcasts, videos

Most viewed blog post, article by me.

Discovered the concept of anti-fragility in the pandemic. One of the best things that happened to me. Gives a new perspective for looking at the problems and a quality solution to them.

Not playing much lately but I still find computer games a good pastime.

Mental model tested

Need to write more. There is so much to write. It’s a little overwhelming.

Favorite Technical books discovered and read

Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency by Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones

I wish I had known all these tools and techniques before. My life would have been much easier knowing the tolerance of the system at observation.

Linux Containers and Virtualization: A Kernel Perspective by Shashank Mohan Jain

I read this before Chaos engineering, these both provide strong foundation to container internals

Favorite non-technical books read

The Timeless way of building by Christopher Alexender

Haven’t read it completely yet but I think I may derive a few things that will help design resilient, time-tested software.

Chip war by Chris Miller

Comprehensive study of silicon industry from its origins to the present.

Books I will re-read

Essays on Bhagwat Gita by Aurobindo Consciousness is Everything

Books I will read

The New Spanda Karika by Peter Willberg

Favorite game discovered

Valheim

Programming languages discovered.

Rustlang Golang

Paper Discovered

Counter-Strike Deathmatch with Large-Scale Behavioural Cloning, Tim Pearce, Jun Zhu Collect high-quality observation-action-observation transition tuples, train a model to predict the actions between observations, then use that trained model to label a much larger observation-only observation dataset

Efficiency of REST and gRPC realizing communication tasks in microservice-based ecosystems, Marek Bolanowski gRPC is not a silver bullet.

Femto-Containers: DevOps on Microcontrollers with Lightweight Virtualization & Isolation for IoT Software Modules, Koen Zandberg Interesting times ahead in virtualization techniques. eBPF will be widely used for observability and security not just on cloud but in most hardwares.

Trips made in 2022

Got an opportunity to travell Odisha. I was surprised by the green landscapes. The beaches are clean and calm. Has rich culture, food to explore. Has some old Buddhist monasteries along with ancient temples. Pictures available in my photo essay

This happened after I attended an awesome marriage of my friend in Kolkata. A 3-day event that had spices of various Indian cultures and cuisines. One of the best weddings I have attended so far.

Plans for 2023

Earn IT certifications Get a job preferably remote only Learn Golang and more familiarity with Rust Travell to meet friends Take parents on a trip Become debt free

People who inspired me in 2023

exurb2a, rwxrob, Acharya Prashant, Andrew Huberman, Nassim Taleb, Slavoj Žižek, Prof. Edwin Bryant, Mark Dyczkowski, Sridhar Vembu, Naval, Ha-Joon Chang,James Clear, Aaron Swartz, Susan David, Julio Froment, Lex Fridman, George Hotz, Anne-Laure Le Cunff

2023 Tech Radar

Golang

Rust

Cloudflare

FPGA, IoT boards