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beejmaxx

systems engineer

books

Open books, built in public.

Interactive field guides to systems, electronic markets, and Rust. Every listed draft is readable online and has public source.

Systems and markets

3 books
working · data structures v1

Computer Science from First Principles

Build a mechanical understanding of high-performance and low-latency systems.

Interactive foundations spanning data structures, algorithms, CPUs, operating systems, concurrency, networking, storage, and measurement.

working draft

Platform Integrity

Engineering detection, decisions, and enforcement against bots, fraud, and abuse.

A decision framework for defending digital ecosystems without reducing every problem to bot detection.

Rust

4 books

Consumer-visible API decisions, specimen by specimen.

Complete programs and implementation trails from important Rust libraries, organized around API-design questions.

A consumer-first guide to asynchronous Rust.

Complete programs, observed output, ordering timelines, cancellation, and library-level async design.

Learn Rust by tracing production systems from public API to runtime behavior.

Repository walkthroughs that connect execution paths and architectural decisions to Rust's type, ownership, and concurrency models.

working

Rust Hero

A fast, practical guide to the Rust concepts that appear constantly in real programs.

Focused explanations and runnable examples for building fluency with Rust's core language and standard-library patterns.