Awesome Scalability
A curated index of engineering blog posts, papers and talks on scalability, availability and stability, organised by topic. Use it to find the primary source on a concept instead of the fourth hand summary.
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System Design
Binh Nguyen
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What it is
A large, well maintained link collection covering scalability, availability, stability, performance and the practices around them, grouped by topic and pointing mostly at original engineering blog posts and papers.
Why an index is valuable
Most system design material is summary of summary. When you want to know how a company solved a problem, the write up by the team that solved it is almost always better than the article about it, and finding that write up is the hard part. This is the finding aid.
How to use it
Do not read it top to bottom. Come to it with a specific question, take the two or three primary sources it points at, and leave.
Best for: engineers who have hit the limits of introductory material and want the sources.
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