Resources
Explore a curated selection of top-tier resources, including in-depth articles, research papers, and guides on software architecture, system design, big data, development roadmaps and more.
Software Architecture
- Microsoft Azure Architecture Center
- Martin Fowler’s Software Architecture Articles
- ThoughtWorks Tech Radar
- Microservices Architecture
- Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) by Martin Fowler
- Domain-Driven Design Reference by Eric Evans
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Google Cloud Architecture Framework
- InfoQ Software Architecture & Design
- Microsoft’s Cloud Design Patterns
System Design
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- The Twelve-Factor App
- High Scalability
- System Design Primer (GitHub)
- Netflix Tech Blog - Scaling & Architecture
- Principles of Distributed Computing
- System Design for Beginners - Alex Xu
- Uber Engineering Blog - Distributed Systems and Scalability
- Dropbox Tech Blog - Scaling Systems
- Google Site Reliability Engineering
Backend System Design & Real-World Architectures
- Scaling Memcache at Facebook
- Kafka: A Distributed Messaging System
- Uber’s Optimized Cassandra Operations at Scale
- Inside Dropbox’s Magic Pocket for Exabyte-Scale Storage
- Designing WhatsApp for Scalability
- Twitter’s Manhattan Event Storage System
- Shopify’s Sharding and Scaling Strategy with MySQL
- A Brief History of Scaling LinkedIn’s Service Architecture
- Netflix’s Real-Time Data Processing Platform Keystone
- How PayPal Achieves High Availability
Database Systems & Best Practices
- Introduction to Relational Databases (PostgreSQL)
- MongoDB Architecture and Data Modeling
- Database Internals: Foundations of SQL Databases
- Designing Scalable Databases with Cassandra
- Redis in Action: Real-Time Data Processing
- Event Sourcing and CQRS with NoSQL
- Choosing Between SQL and NoSQL Databases
- CockroachDB: Distributed SQL at Scale
- Elasticsearch for Full-Text Search and Analytics
- ArangoDB: Multi-Model Database Architecture