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Recently I've got a few interns to look after and mentor, so one of them asked for some advice on improving their system design skills.
So I gave a long monolog on digging through the layers of abstractions and being curious and genuinely understanding how things work. After it, I suggested them to read a "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" book and also prepared a shortlist of talks that can work as conversation starter or places from where you can start digging deeper.
Here is the list:













































































Write in the comments: what else would you recommend or what talk you'd add to the list.