Shivam's Knowledgebase

CS Fundamentals

Operating Systems

• Operating Systems: A Linux Kernel-Oriented Perspective by Prof. Smruti Sarangi: Book Link
• OS lectures by Prof. Sorav Bansal: Youtube Link

Caches

• YouTube playlist by Prof. Harry Porter: Link
• Cache Coherence: See relevant videos here
• MIT Notes: Intro, MESI

Systems Programming

• CS 361 by Prof. Chris Kanich: YT Link
• Some Latency Number: Notes
• To be added

OS

• Atomic Instructions: Notes
• Memory Reordering: Notes
• Padding and Packing (Aligned Memory Access): Notes
• Buffer Overflow Attacks: Notes
• OS Boot Process: Notes
• From a Program to Process: Notes
• Stack Memory Management: Link
• To be added

Networking

• From NIC to User Processes: Notes
• How The Kernel Handles A TCP Connection: Notes

Some Interesting YT Videos

• Revise OS Memory Management: Link
• Why Composition better than Inheritance: Link
• mmap in database system: Link
• How processes get more memory: Link
• mmap for File Mapping: Link
• mmap for IPC: Link
• From Silicon to Applications: Link

C++

General Concepts

• Move Semantics: Notes
• Casting: Notes
• Const, const_cast<>, constexpr, consteval: Notes
• C++ Coding Practices: Link
• Lambdas: Notes
• Smart Pointers: Notes
• Classes and RAII: Notes
• Templates: Notes
• Virtual Functions and vTables: Notes
• HTTP using libcurl: Notes
• More C++ Study Notes: Link
• Allocators: Notes
• Placement New: Notes
• Exceptions (throw, try/catch): Notes
• i++ vs ++i overloading: Notes
• CRTP: Notes
• To be added

C++ Performance

• Keep in Mind: Notes
• Return Value Optimisation: Notes
• Template Metaprogramming: Notes
• Set vs PQ: Notes
• Function Inlining: Notes

C++ Implementation

• Unique Pointer: Code
• Shared Pointer: Code
• Thread Pool: Code
• HashMap: Code
• LRU Cache: Code
• Scope Timer: Code
• Memory Pool: Code

Development

Work Environment

• Get started with Vim/Nvim (Helix actually): Notes
• Git command sheet: Notes
• Tmux cheat sheet: Notes

Docker

• Basic Introduction by Learn Linux TV: YT Link

CLI utilities

• Cheat.sh: Notes
• Find command linux: Notes