Awesome Robotics System Design (and more)

Stuff I read to learn about robotics system & software design, engineering culture, etc.

General System & SW Design Resources

• The System Design Primer
• Grokking the System Design Interview
• Preparing for the Systems Design and Coding Interview
  • How to best prepare for system design interviews | Top Tips for system design interviews preparation
  • System Design Interview – Step By Step Guide
  • Systems Design Interview Guide
• Software Architecture Guide
• Refactoring.Guru

Design Docs & Articles

• ROS2 Design
  • ROS on ZeroMQ and Friends
  • ROS on DDS
  • Clock and Time
  • Managed nodes
  • ROS 2 Launch System
  • ROS 2.0 rosbags
• Autoware's Design
  • Planning component design
• openpilot
  • End-to-end lateral planning
  • How openpilot works in 2021
  • Development speed over everything
• CI for Embedded Systems

Blogs

• comma.ai blog
• Apex.AI Blog
• PICKNIK blog
• Foxglove blog
• Cruise news
• Isaac Sim Technical Blog
• Airbotics blog
• Balena.io Blog
• aviator blog
• DevZero blog

Mindmaps

• roadmap.sh - Backend | DevOps
• scikit-learn - Choosing the right estimator
• The Map of Control Theory

Conferences

• ROSCon
  • Physical Continuous Integration — CI on Real Robots!, 2016
  • Determinism in ROS – or when things break sometimes and how to fix it, 2017
  • Concurrency in ROS 1 and ROS 2, 2019
  • Tracing ROS 2 with ros2_tracing, 2021
  • Rosbag2 for Power Users, 2021
• COMMA_CON
  • How We Test openpilot, 2021
• Amazon re:MARS
  • Functional safety product development for autonomous mobile robots, 2022
• BazelCon
  • Building Self Driving Cars with Bazel, 2019
• CppCon
  • How We Test openpilot | COMMA_CON

Engineering Culture & Project Management

• Spotify Engineering Culture - Part 1
• The Scrum Guide
• Why you should stop using product roadmaps and try the GIST Framework
  • GIST Planning
• The Glue Engineer
• project-checklist by amilajack
• Going from Junior -> Senior engineer in 2 years
• How to Lead a Project - as a Software Engineer

University Courses

• University of Washington CSE 478: Autonomous Robotics
• University of Washington CSE 451: Operating Systems
• University of California, Berkely CS 287 Advanced Robotics
• University of Washington CSE 599g1: Introduction to Deep Learning
• University of Washington CSE P576: Computer Vision

C++

• Abseil Blog
  • The Danger of Atomic Operations
• facebook folly
  • Async stack traces in folly: Improving debugging in the developer lifecycle
• An introduction to C++'s SFINAE concept: compile-time introspection of a class member
• The C++ Bestiary
• Reflection in C++ Part 1: The Present
• Brain Unrolling
• C++ medley
• Coffee Into Bugs: Life After Threads, Coroutines
• Challenge your performance intuition with C++ magic squares
• Embedded Template Library

C

• coffeeintobugs
  • Coffee into Bugs: libc from Scratch
• An easy-to-implement, arena-friendly hash map
• In Defense Of Linked Lists

License