System Design

A list of talks/blog posts/papers/books which may be useful to learn about System Design.

Books

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

Papers

• End-to-End Arguments in System Design - Saltzer et al., 1984

• Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store - DeCandia et al., 2007

• Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball

Talks

• Systems and Machine Learning Symbiosis by Jeff Dean

• Applying the Saga Pattern by Caitie McCaffrey

• CRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency by Martin Kleppmann

• Achieving Rapid Response Times in Large Online Services by Jeff Dean

• Building Software Systems At Google and Lessons Learned by Jeff Dean

• Practical Load Balancing with Consistent Hashing by Andrew Rodland

Blog post

• CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed

• Please stop calling databases CP or AP

• You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance

• FLP and CAP aren't the same thing

• The Log: What every software engineer should know

• A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

• How does a relational database work?