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Essential reading list for engineers

Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications
Introduces modular monoliths.
backend
microservices
Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores
The delta table format for big data lakehouse
big data
storage
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
Google's paper on the bigtable format
big data
storage
Presto: SQL on Everything
SQL Query engine for interactive analytics in big data.
big data
analytics
Napa: Powering Scalable Data Warehousing with Robust Query Performance at Google
A customizable data warehouse technology for google
big data
storage
analytics
Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store
Foundational paper on AWS DynamoDB
databases
Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database
A great paper which explains the core ideas behind time-series databases
databases
time series
Sharding the Shards: Managing Datastore Locality at Scale with Akkio
Meta's data placement service
infrastructure
AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development
Autonomous Developer paper from Microsoft.
AI
Microsoft
Google File System
The google dile system paper that HDFS is based on.
Distributed FS
Google
Umbra Database System
The google dile system paper that HDFS is based on.
Database
OLTP