How to know where to start? Knowledge map?
How well does this content fit a knowledge map structure? The list is great but it's also large-ish and growing. Having a logical starting point (perhaps per high-level topic) might be interesting. ...
Presentation: Practicalities of Productionizing Distributed Systems
Video is here, need to find the slides though.
I'm not exactly sure if this fits in here, but the appendix F from the Challenger explosion investigation was a goldmine of engineering principles and how things can go wrong that I could learn from ...
Courseware: Computer and Network Security
https://engineering.purdue.edu/kak/compsec/Lectures.html
The Spark work is really interesting and there are some good papers on it: http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2010/hotcloud_spark.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi12/nsdi12-final138.pdf ...
General paper- or book-length resources on security engineering practices.
http://odbms.org/download/dean-keynote-ladis2009.pdf (Design, Lessons, and Advice from Building Distributed Systems at Google) leads to 404 page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem I don't have any recommendations for specific papers currently, but I think it's an important concept for engineers to learn!
Log-structured merge trees are a pervasive pattern in modern systems. They're used by some of the systems mentioned in our existing links, but might also warrant a top-level link too.