gistfile1.md

Reading

Technical

• Dynamo http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf
• Building on Quicksand http://www-db.cs.wisc.edu/cidr/cidr2009/Paper_133.pdf
• Cassandra paper http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/papers/lakshman-ladis2009.pdf
• Google's Mega Store http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/36971.pdf
• Dremel http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/36632.pdf
• Bid Data Complexity http://www.slideshare.net/nathanmarz/runaway-complexity-in-big-data-and-a-plan-to-stop-it
• Joshua Bloch on Good API Design http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/slides/keynote.pdf
• GigaOM Pro report on MBaaS https://dl.dropbox.com/u/348446/what-developers-should-know-when-choosing-an-mbaas-solution.pdf

Marketing

• Startup Metrics for Pirates http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-long-version
• Read the entire backlog at http://www.themarkphillips.com/
• Read the entire backlog at http://meghangill.com/
• The Distribution Hacker’s Mission: http://distributionhacks.com/creating-an-unfair-advantage
• Andy Johns on Facebook’s Growth Team: http://qr.ae/1cHro and http://qr.ae/1cHyk
• Developer Economics Report: http://www.visionmobile.com/product/developer-economics-2013-the-tools-report/
• Typography: <http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/techniques/a-20-minute-intro-to-typography-basics/ + linked articles>

Non-reading list

Monitor for trends, announcements, but do not put too much weight into what is said

• news.ycombinator.com
• Techcrunch
• GigaOM (blog, reports are OK)
• Mashable