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System of the Day: The Essential Knowledge Base for Back-End Programmers

In an era of increasing competition for programmers, the demands at interviews are rising. As a back-end programmer, have you come across the following queries:

1. Is your work too business-oriented? Is there a lack of understanding of the underlying principles? Do you feel overwhelmed when faced with engineering code questions?
2. Do you know what an inode does in a file system? How many common thread scheduling algorithms can you name?
3. Do you understand the basic paradigm of distributed systems? Can you explain the trade-offs of the CAP principle? And how does the consensus protocol process work?
4. Can you name how common storage engines organize data? How are compute engines for big data scheduled?
5. Do you know what the common data models are? Can you tell the difference between relational databases and NoSQL? How much do you know about the underlying database knowledge, especially the tuning of query statements?

In this era of information explosion, good articles are often drowned out by a lot of noise. If you want to systematically improve your knowledge of storage, databases, distributed systems, AI Infra, and other underlying systems, but are struggling with the lack of high signal-to-noise information sources, then welcome to subscribe to the Systems Daily Knowledge.

About the Author.

Mr. Qindo Woodchuck, a computer science graduate from Beipiao, has many years of experience in bottom layer system development, and has worked in Microsoft, Tencent and other big factories, as well as unicorns and small startups. Mr. Aoto's work covers large-scale data systems, including distributed data processing, mass object storage, distributed graph database, AI Platform, and other directions. Under the screen name of "Wooden Bird Miscellany", he continuously outputs high-quality articles on the whole internet, and insists on sharing the classic book "Designing Data-Intensive Systems" (DDIA for short) in the system field. He has accumulated hundreds of thousands of words in the text, and released more than 30 sharing videos on B-site, and all the contents have been open-sourced.

Column content

The Systems Daybook column centers around the systems knowledge of storage, compute, distributed systems, and AI Infra that back-end programmers need to develop, and includes the following main series:

• Introduction to databases: An in-depth introduction to the fundamentals and techniques of using various databases.
• Underlying knowledge for interviews: Help you stand out in an interview with all kinds of underlying knowledge.
• Industrial Architecture Analysis: Parse real industrial architecture case studies and learn best practices.
• Interpretation of classic essays: Interpret classic papers in the field of systems and draw on the latest scholarship.
• Goodreads Translation Series: Translate and interpret excellent technical articles from abroad to broaden your horizons.
• Experience Sharing (Miscellaneous): Share the author's practical experience and insights.

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concluding remarks

In today's information flood, System Daybook is dedicated to providing high signal-to-noise ratio system knowledge to help back-end programmers improve their professional skills systematically. Looking forward to your subscription and participation, let's swim in the sea of technology and make progress together.