Happy Halloween! Want to read some scary, low-level, systems related stuff? Here's a short list of very useful articles I read recently:
- What Every Data Programmer Needs to Know about Disks
 - Linux IO Scheduler
 - Do You Really Get Memory?
 - Quake 2 Source Code Review
 - The Architecture of Open Source Applications
 - Understanding Memory
 - Playing with Virtual Memory
 - Other links I've mentioned previously
 
GC horror stories in the .Net world.
Still not scared? How about some math and statistics:
- Ranking data at LinkedIn
 - Some more math stuff and other useful miscellaneous Java articles
 - Basic R/statistics every programmer should know
 
Ashwin.