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 ...
Added Micro Service presentation
This presentation about designing and building micro services is fantastic. One of the best explanations I've come across.
http://carlos.bueno.org/optimization/mature-optimization.pdf Internal performance optimization manual for facebook.
Post: How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
hello, educational article and post-mortem document http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/64740079543/how-to-lose-172-222-a-second-for-45-minutes
Add 'The Art of Capacity Planning'
This was recommended to me by @chooper and is a tremendous help getting started with capacity planning.
Paper: Crew Resource Management
Crew Resource Management: a Positive Change for the Fire Service Best article-length resource I've been able to find so far, probably can replace the current Wikipedia link.
Brewer’s Conjecture and the Feasibility of Consistent, Available, Partition-Tolerant Web Services (Gilbert and Lynch) The original CAP proof.