About me:
Hello! I'm Aviv. I enjoy building products with cost-effective development strategies.
Here's a list of things that I find interesting, and you might too!
Connect with me on Linkedin: 
Founders' bookmarks:
🔗 Antler's Blog - Ex-Spotify CTO Explains How To Build And Scale Successful Startups.
🔗 NFX Blog - The Startup Advantage in AI.
🔗 YCombinator blog - Build for customers, not VCs.
🔗 Patrick Collison's Blog - Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together.
🔗 Sam Altman's Blog - What I Wish Someone Had Told Me.
🔗 Chloe Yoo - How to Sell Your Early-Stage Startup.
🔗 NFX Blog - The Network Effects Manual: 16 Network Effects (And Counting).
🔗 NFX Blog - A Founder’s Exponential Toolset: Wright’s Law, Moore’s Law, & More.
🔗 NFX Blog - The Ladder of Proof: Uncovering How VC’s See Your Startup.
🔗 YCombinator Blog - A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process.
🔗 YCombinator Blog - Practical Design: MVP Spec.
🔗 YCombinator Blog - YC Alum Advice for Managing Remote Teams.
🔗 Squoia (Stories) Blog - Dan Lorenc | Battling the Trojan Horse in Open Source.
🔗 Sam Altman - Startup Playbook.
🔗 Pieter Levels's Blog - Normalization of non-deviance.
🔗 Asaf Avidan Antonir (YT Video) - We Sold Our Startup & Filmed Everything.
🔗 Yaron Galai's Blog - The story of Outbrain and Twitter’s business model.
🔗 Dries Buytaert's Blog - Optimizing your product strategy for the short- and long-term.
🔗 Jay Johnson - Another Failed Startup Lessons Learned in the B2C Space.
🔗 Review.FirstRound.com - Pricing Lessons from Working with 30+ Seed and Series A B2B Startups.
🔗 Alphalist Blog - Data is new oil - Podcast with Johannes Schaback.
🔗 Alphalist Blog - The Wix Guild Model.
🔗 VisionaryCTO.com - What a CTO Does: P.P.A.P. and Startup CTO vs Corporate CTO.
🔗 HackerNoon.com - The Man Who Made $50 Million By Selling the Same App Twice.
🔗 Andrew Chen's Blog - How To (Actually) Calculate CAC.
🔗 Andrew Chen's Blog - Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z.
🔗 Tomasz Tunguz's Blog - Marketing Teams as Hedge Funds.
🔗 Ryan Hoover's Blog - The Rise of “No Code”.
🔗 Ryan Hoover's Blog - The Problems in Remote Working.
🔗 Ryan Hoover's Blog - Email-First Startups.
🔗 Jason Fried's Blog - Live with it for a while.
🔗 Jason Fried's Blog - Admiration makes the team.
🔗 Jason Fried's Blog - Effective > Productive.
🔗 Hiten Shah's Blog - Growth hacking was invented with a mint julep and two beers.
🔗 Hiten Shah's Blog - How To Grow Your Startup By Asking Better Questions.
🔗 Hiten Shah's Blog - How Amazon Web Services (AWS) Achieved an $11.5B Run Rate by Working Backwards.
🔗 Hiten Shah's Blog - How Optimizely Shrunk Google’s Market Share by 92%.
🔗 Hiten Shah's Blog - How to Build a Brand from Nothing.
🔗 Hiten Shah's Blog - Copycat Your Competitors to Take the Market.
🔗 The Beautiful Mess Blog (John Cutler) - The Black Box.
🔗 The Beautiful Mess Blog (John Cutler) - Strategy = Insights^Conviction.
🔗 The Beautiful Mess Blog (John Cutler) - Product-Reality Fit (PRF).
🔗 The Beautiful Mess Blog (John Cutler) - High Leverage Product Evangelism.
🔗 Briam Chesky - 7 Rejections.
🔗 Joel Gascoigne's Blog - Crafting a support network
🔗 Joel Gascoigne's Blog - My experience with burnout as a startup founder
🔗 Mark Suster's Blog - Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit
🔗 The Pragmatic Engineer (Gergely Orosz) - Lessons from Bootstrapped Companies Founded by Software Engineers
🔗 Excalidraw - Collaborative whiteboarding made easy
🔗 Diagram.net (Draw.io) - drawio, diagram, online, flow chart, flowchart maker, uml, erd.
🔗 NFX Masterclass - The Network Effects Masterclass.
🔗 Bill Gates YT Channel | Unconfused Me Ep. 6 - Sam Altman.
🔗 Lidan Hifi - Bridging Teams: A Leader’s Guide to Successful Cross-Team Projects.
🔗 FirstRoundCapital YT Channel - A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta).
🔗 YCombinator YT Channel - Tom Blomfield: How I Created Two Billion-Dollar Fintech Startups.
🔗 Tessa Rowan - How a Simple Countdown Timer Website Makes $10,000 Per Month.
Tech bookmarks:
🔗 Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models - New Multi-LLM Strategy Boosts Accuracy in Sentiment Analysis.
🔗 Richmond Alake , Apoorva Joshi - Adding Semantic Caching and Memory to Your RAG Application Using MongoDB and LangChain.
🔗 AWS Portsmouth User Group - Single-Table Design with DynamoDB - Alex DeBrie, AWS Data Hero.
🔗 Unusual Ventures YT - Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats on AI-powered search.
🔗 LangChain blog - LangFriend: a Journal with Long-Term Memory.
🔗 Iconbuddy - Download, Customize, Edit and Personalize. Over 200k+ open source icons.
🔗 LangChain blog - Reflection Agents.
🔗 Wasp - The fastest way to develop full-stack web apps with React & Node.js.
🔗 Dmitry Khorev - Build Scalable Event-Driven Applications With Nest.js.
🔗 Logchain.dev Blog - Applying OpenAI's RAG Strategies.
🔗 Alex Mitelman - Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021.
🔗 Promptingguide.ai - ReAct Prompting.
🔗 Promptingguide.ai - Adversarial Prompting.
🔗 SKELETON-OF-THOUGHT - Large Language Models Can Do Parallel Decoding.
🔗 Microservices.io - What are microservices.
🔗 NGINX Blog - Best Practices for Configuring Microservices Apps.
🔗 Coin.host - NGINX SECURITY GUIDE: ESSENTIAL MEASURES AND OPTIMAL PRACTICES.
🔗 Dev.to, Bentil Shadrack (Documantic) - Monoliths vs. Microservices: Breaking Down Software Architectures.
🔗 https://llmsecurity.net/ - LLM security is the investigation of the failure modes of LLMs in use, the conditions that lead to them, and their mitigations.
🔗 React.Dev - Thinking in React.
🔗 Aritra Nag - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Costs and Usages in AWS.
🔗 MongoDB Developers Blog - MongoDB Schema Design Best Practices.
🔗 Langchain Blog - How to Safely Query Enterprise Data with LangChain Agents + SQL + OpenAI + Gretel.
🔗 Monorepo.tools - Understanding Monorepos.
🔗 Marco Bertelli - Build a complete OpenSource LLM RAG QA Chatbot — Choose the Model.
🔗 AWS Startup (PDF) - Scale Series | Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) Deep Dive.
🔗 Jun Kaneko - Understanding React Native Architecture.
🔗 Micro Frontends - extending the microservice idea to frontend development.
🔗 Azure Learn - Multi-tenant SaaS database tenancy patterns.
🔗 devhints.io - BASH Cheatsheet.
🔗 Simon Fredsted Blog - Tips and tricks for htop.
🔗 Or Arbel's Blog (Anima App) - Production-ready Code vs. Developer-friendly Code.
🔗 Olamilekan Alade (Level Up Coding) - Building Efficient UI Mobile Library Components Using Expo, React-Native, Typescript, Storybook, and React-Native-Builder-Bob.
🔗 Singleton.io Blog - Stable diffusion on an M1 Mac.
🔗 MIT Weblab - Mongoose Cheatsheet
🔗 Ines Montani - Incorporating LLMs into practical NLP workflows
🔗 Github Blog (Nicole Choi) - The architecture of today’s LLM applications
🔗 Snapchat Engineering Blog - From Monolith to Multicloud Micro-Services: Inside Snap’s Service Mesh
🔗 Peter Baumgartner (NormConf) YT Video - Data is the new coffee
🔗 Chip Huyen's Blog - Building LLM applications for production
🔗 Agile Menifesto - Manifesto for Agile Software Development
🔗 Philippe Page - Abbreviated Semantic Encoding: A Technique for Prompt Compression
🔗 Towards Data Science (Zhaocheng Zhu) - Solving Reasoning Problems with LLMs in 2023
🔗 Crontab Guru - The quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions by Cronitor.
🔗 JSON Formatter
🔗 Noname Security Academy - What is a Load Balancer?
🔗 Snapchat - (YT Video) Snap: Journey of a Snap on Snapchat Using AWS
🔗 Uber Blog - Introducing Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture
🔗 @nodepractices - The Node.js best practices list (December 2023)
🔗 Tinder's Blog - Tinder’s move to Kubernetes
🔗 Netflix Tech Blog - GraphQL Search Indexing
🔗 AirBnB Blog - Dynein: Building an Open-source Distributed Delayed Job Queueing System
🔗 AirBnB Blog - Building an Effective Test Pipeline in a Service Oriented World
🔗 Roadmap.sh - roadmap.sh is a community effort to create roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help guide developers in picking up a path and guide their learnings.
🔗 OWASP (llmtop10.com) - LLM06: Sensitive Information Disclosure.
🔗 Fathom Analytics Blog - Reducing our AWS bill by $100,000.
🔗 SaaSDB - Saas DB is a database of saas companies and the tech they use.
🔗 @donnemartin/system-design-primer - Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview.
🔗 Supabase.com - Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. Start your project with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, Realtime subscriptions, Storage, and Vector embeddings.
🔗 Electronic Arts - How to Create Immersive Player Experiences with Real-Time Data (Redis).
🔗 Daily.Dev - React 19: Everything you need to know in one place.
🔗 Itay - Beyond FastAPI: The Evolution of Python Microservices in 2024 with PyNest.
🔗 Tinder Developers Blog - How we built the Tinder API Gateway.
🔗 Zain Hoda (Stackademic) - Build a Chatbot for your SQL database in 20 lines of Python using Streamlit and Vanna.
🔗 Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D for Microsoft Azure - Prompt Engineering Fundamentals - Generative AI For Beginners (v1).
🔗 huggingface - Better RAG 1: Advanced Basics.
🔗 Rotem Weiss - Discover the Power of LangGraph: My Adventure in Building GPT-Newspaper.
🔗 llmcache.com - Semantic cache for LLM prompts using Chains.
🔗 Antler's Blog - Ex-Spotify CTO Explains How To Build And Scale Successful Startups.
🔗 NFX Blog - The Startup Advantage in AI.
🔗 YCombinator blog - Build for customers, not VCs.
🔗 Patrick Collison's Blog - Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together.
🔗 Sam Altman's Blog - What I Wish Someone Had Told Me.
🔗 Chloe Yoo - How to Sell Your Early-Stage Startup.
🔗 NFX Blog - The Network Effects Manual: 16 Network Effects (And Counting).
🔗 NFX Blog - A Founder’s Exponential Toolset: Wright’s Law, Moore’s Law, & More.
🔗 NFX Blog - The Ladder of Proof: Uncovering How VC’s See Your Startup.
🔗 YCombinator Blog - A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process.
🔗 YCombinator Blog - Practical Design: MVP Spec.
🔗 YCombinator Blog - YC Alum Advice for Managing Remote Teams.
🔗 Squoia (Stories) Blog - Dan Lorenc | Battling the Trojan Horse in Open Source.
🔗 Sam Altman - Startup Playbook.
🔗 Pieter Levels's Blog - Normalization of non-deviance.
🔗 Asaf Avidan Antonir (YT Video) - We Sold Our Startup & Filmed Everything.
🔗 Yaron Galai's Blog - The story of Outbrain and Twitter’s business model.
🔗 Dries Buytaert's Blog - Optimizing your product strategy for the short- and long-term.
🔗 Jay Johnson - Another Failed Startup Lessons Learned in the B2C Space.
🔗 Review.FirstRound.com - Pricing Lessons from Working with 30+ Seed and Series A B2B Startups.
🔗 Alphalist Blog - Data is new oil - Podcast with Johannes Schaback.
🔗 Alphalist Blog - The Wix Guild Model.
🔗 VisionaryCTO.com - What a CTO Does: P.P.A.P. and Startup CTO vs Corporate CTO.
🔗 HackerNoon.com - The Man Who Made $50 Million By Selling the Same App Twice.
🔗 Andrew Chen's Blog - How To (Actually) Calculate CAC.
🔗 Andrew Chen's Blog - Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z.
🔗 Tomasz Tunguz's Blog - Marketing Teams as Hedge Funds.
🔗 Ryan Hoover's Blog - The Rise of “No Code”.
🔗 Ryan Hoover's Blog - The Problems in Remote Working.
🔗 Ryan Hoover's Blog - Email-First Startups.
🔗 Jason Fried's Blog - Live with it for a while.
🔗 Jason Fried's Blog - Admiration makes the team.
🔗 Jason Fried's Blog - Effective > Productive.
🔗 Hiten Shah's Blog - Growth hacking was invented with a mint julep and two beers.
🔗 Hiten Shah's Blog - How To Grow Your Startup By Asking Better Questions.
🔗 Hiten Shah's Blog - How Amazon Web Services (AWS) Achieved an $11.5B Run Rate by Working Backwards.
🔗 Hiten Shah's Blog - How Optimizely Shrunk Google’s Market Share by 92%.
🔗 Hiten Shah's Blog - How to Build a Brand from Nothing.
🔗 Hiten Shah's Blog - Copycat Your Competitors to Take the Market.
🔗 The Beautiful Mess Blog (John Cutler) - The Black Box.
🔗 The Beautiful Mess Blog (John Cutler) - Strategy = Insights^Conviction.
🔗 The Beautiful Mess Blog (John Cutler) - Product-Reality Fit (PRF).
🔗 The Beautiful Mess Blog (John Cutler) - High Leverage Product Evangelism.
🔗 Briam Chesky - 7 Rejections.
🔗 Joel Gascoigne's Blog - Crafting a support network
🔗 Joel Gascoigne's Blog - My experience with burnout as a startup founder
🔗 Mark Suster's Blog - Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit
🔗 The Pragmatic Engineer (Gergely Orosz) - Lessons from Bootstrapped Companies Founded by Software Engineers
🔗 Excalidraw - Collaborative whiteboarding made easy
🔗 Diagram.net (Draw.io) - drawio, diagram, online, flow chart, flowchart maker, uml, erd.
🔗 NFX Masterclass - The Network Effects Masterclass.
🔗 Bill Gates YT Channel | Unconfused Me Ep. 6 - Sam Altman.
🔗 Lidan Hifi - Bridging Teams: A Leader’s Guide to Successful Cross-Team Projects.
🔗 FirstRoundCapital YT Channel - A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta).
🔗 YCombinator YT Channel - Tom Blomfield: How I Created Two Billion-Dollar Fintech Startups.
🔗 Tessa Rowan - How a Simple Countdown Timer Website Makes $10,000 Per Month.
🔗 Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models - New Multi-LLM Strategy Boosts Accuracy in Sentiment Analysis.
🔗 Richmond Alake , Apoorva Joshi - Adding Semantic Caching and Memory to Your RAG Application Using MongoDB and LangChain.
🔗 AWS Portsmouth User Group - Single-Table Design with DynamoDB - Alex DeBrie, AWS Data Hero.
🔗 Unusual Ventures YT - Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats on AI-powered search.
🔗 LangChain blog - LangFriend: a Journal with Long-Term Memory.
🔗 Iconbuddy - Download, Customize, Edit and Personalize. Over 200k+ open source icons.
🔗 LangChain blog - Reflection Agents.
🔗 Wasp - The fastest way to develop full-stack web apps with React & Node.js.
🔗 Dmitry Khorev - Build Scalable Event-Driven Applications With Nest.js.
🔗 Logchain.dev Blog - Applying OpenAI's RAG Strategies.
🔗 Alex Mitelman - Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021.
🔗 Promptingguide.ai - ReAct Prompting.
🔗 Promptingguide.ai - Adversarial Prompting.
🔗 SKELETON-OF-THOUGHT - Large Language Models Can Do Parallel Decoding.
🔗 Microservices.io - What are microservices.
🔗 NGINX Blog - Best Practices for Configuring Microservices Apps.
🔗 Coin.host - NGINX SECURITY GUIDE: ESSENTIAL MEASURES AND OPTIMAL PRACTICES.
🔗 Dev.to, Bentil Shadrack (Documantic) - Monoliths vs. Microservices: Breaking Down Software Architectures.
🔗 https://llmsecurity.net/ - LLM security is the investigation of the failure modes of LLMs in use, the conditions that lead to them, and their mitigations.
🔗 React.Dev - Thinking in React.
🔗 Aritra Nag - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Costs and Usages in AWS.
🔗 MongoDB Developers Blog - MongoDB Schema Design Best Practices.
🔗 Langchain Blog - How to Safely Query Enterprise Data with LangChain Agents + SQL + OpenAI + Gretel.
🔗 Monorepo.tools - Understanding Monorepos.
🔗 Marco Bertelli - Build a complete OpenSource LLM RAG QA Chatbot — Choose the Model.
🔗 AWS Startup (PDF) - Scale Series | Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) Deep Dive.
🔗 Jun Kaneko - Understanding React Native Architecture.
🔗 Micro Frontends - extending the microservice idea to frontend development.
🔗 Azure Learn - Multi-tenant SaaS database tenancy patterns.
🔗 devhints.io - BASH Cheatsheet.
🔗 Simon Fredsted Blog - Tips and tricks for htop.
🔗 Or Arbel's Blog (Anima App) - Production-ready Code vs. Developer-friendly Code.
🔗 Olamilekan Alade (Level Up Coding) - Building Efficient UI Mobile Library Components Using Expo, React-Native, Typescript, Storybook, and React-Native-Builder-Bob.
🔗 Singleton.io Blog - Stable diffusion on an M1 Mac.
🔗 MIT Weblab - Mongoose Cheatsheet
🔗 Ines Montani - Incorporating LLMs into practical NLP workflows
🔗 Github Blog (Nicole Choi) - The architecture of today’s LLM applications
🔗 Snapchat Engineering Blog - From Monolith to Multicloud Micro-Services: Inside Snap’s Service Mesh
🔗 Peter Baumgartner (NormConf) YT Video - Data is the new coffee
🔗 Chip Huyen's Blog - Building LLM applications for production
🔗 Agile Menifesto - Manifesto for Agile Software Development
🔗 Philippe Page - Abbreviated Semantic Encoding: A Technique for Prompt Compression
🔗 Towards Data Science (Zhaocheng Zhu) - Solving Reasoning Problems with LLMs in 2023
🔗 Crontab Guru - The quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions by Cronitor.
🔗 JSON Formatter
🔗 Noname Security Academy - What is a Load Balancer?
🔗 Snapchat - (YT Video) Snap: Journey of a Snap on Snapchat Using AWS
🔗 Uber Blog - Introducing Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture
🔗 @nodepractices - The Node.js best practices list (December 2023)
🔗 Tinder's Blog - Tinder’s move to Kubernetes
🔗 Netflix Tech Blog - GraphQL Search Indexing
🔗 AirBnB Blog - Dynein: Building an Open-source Distributed Delayed Job Queueing System
🔗 AirBnB Blog - Building an Effective Test Pipeline in a Service Oriented World
🔗 Roadmap.sh - roadmap.sh is a community effort to create roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help guide developers in picking up a path and guide their learnings.
🔗 OWASP (llmtop10.com) - LLM06: Sensitive Information Disclosure.
🔗 Fathom Analytics Blog - Reducing our AWS bill by $100,000.
🔗 SaaSDB - Saas DB is a database of saas companies and the tech they use.
🔗 @donnemartin/system-design-primer - Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview.
🔗 Supabase.com - Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. Start your project with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, Realtime subscriptions, Storage, and Vector embeddings.
🔗 Electronic Arts - How to Create Immersive Player Experiences with Real-Time Data (Redis).
🔗 Daily.Dev - React 19: Everything you need to know in one place.
🔗 Itay - Beyond FastAPI: The Evolution of Python Microservices in 2024 with PyNest.
🔗 Tinder Developers Blog - How we built the Tinder API Gateway.
🔗 Zain Hoda (Stackademic) - Build a Chatbot for your SQL database in 20 lines of Python using Streamlit and Vanna.
🔗 Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D for Microsoft Azure - Prompt Engineering Fundamentals - Generative AI For Beginners (v1).
🔗 huggingface - Better RAG 1: Advanced Basics.
🔗 Rotem Weiss - Discover the Power of LangGraph: My Adventure in Building GPT-Newspaper.
🔗 llmcache.com - Semantic cache for LLM prompts using Chains.