Resources
Things I actually use. No sponsored content. No affiliate links.
Learning
Best book on distributed systems and database internals. Every serious backend engineer should own this.
Still the definitive reference for Java concurrency. Dense but worth it.
DSA practice. Clean explanations, well-structured by pattern.
HLD system design. Good visual explanations, good for building intuition.
Not glamorous, but the actual source of truth.
Tools
Primary Java IDE. No substitute.
Everything else.
Local environment parity on every project.
Vector search development and benchmarking.
Personal knowledge base. All learning notes live here.
Reference Docs
The canonical source for Oracle internals.
Rigorous and complete.
Start here for any Spring Boot question.
javadoc for the standard library.
Women in Tech
Job board and community. Actually useful.
Events and community.
For when the soft stuff is actually the hard stuff.