backend-reads

A list of interesting reads and finds in software architecture, with a main focus on backend.
This list will be continously updated and restructured, feel free to jump in with your suggestions and contributions!

Please note that this guide is made solely to feed your curiousity, and is not meant to be a studying material.

for more structured guides I'd recommend these amazing repos:

• System Design Primer
• Developer Roadmap

Articles:

• Miscellaneous
  • MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
• Case Studies
  • The Uber Tech Stack: Part I
  • The Uber Tech Stack: Part II
• Scalability
  • Netflix's 1 Million Writes per Second
  • How HotStar Scaled With 10.3 Million Concurrent Users
  • Scaling Facebook to 500 million users and beyond
• Data Ingestion/ Stream Processing
  • Linkedin's data ingestion tool: Gobblin
  • Netflix's KeyStone: A Stream Processing Platform
  • More on Netflix Stream Processing
• Real Time Architecture
  • Understanding the Event Loop in Node.js
  • How Does LinkedIn Identify Its Users Online?
  • Facebook: Broadcasting live video to millions
• Message Queues
  • RabbitMQ: Understanding AMQP concepts
  • Wikipedia: More on AMQP
• Microservices
  • Linkedin: Killing Leo
  • Segment: Goodbye Microsevices
  • Istio: When not to use Microservices
  • Uber: Domain Oriented Microservices Architecture
• Databases
• Peer To Peer Architecture
• Networks
  • 25 things about networks that every Engineer/Architect needs to know - Amr Ali

Resources:

• Web Application and Software Architecture 101 - Shivang Sarawagi
• Microservices Architecture in Arabic - Mohamed Sweelam
• MSoftware & Web Application Architecture - The TechCave
• Martin Fowler's blog