What every developer / programmer must know about Unicode / Floating Point / Memory / DBMS/ CSS/ Your Topic Here

In this post, I intend to compile a list of links to resouces on What everyone should know about different technologies and concepts. So reader, please suggest topics and the article/book/video link in comments, I'll update the list attributing you as contributor. Thanks

Updated: 01-Mar-2019 (Added Memory entry)
Updated: 17-Jan-2019 (Added DBMS entry)
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