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May 11 - May 17, 2020

Services Engineering Reading List / Posts

• Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant (Yegge)

Mar 23 - Mar 29, 2015

Services Engineering Reading List / Posts

• Incuriosity Will Kill Your Infrastructure (Crayford)

Feb 02 - Feb 08, 2015

Services Engineering Reading List / Books

• High Performance Browser Networking (Grigorik)

Nov 03 - Nov 09, 2014

Services Engineering Reading List / Papers

• The Log-Structured Merge-Tree (O'Neil et al.)

Services Engineering Reading List / Posts

• Game Day Exercises at Stripe: Learning from kill -9 (Hedlund)

May 26 - Jun 01, 2014

Services Engineering Reading List / Papers

• Fault Injection in Production (Allspaw)

• Weathering the Unexpected (Krishnan)

• The Unified Logging Infrastructure for Data Analytics at Twitter (Lee et al.)

• Automatic Management of Partitioned, Replicated Search Services (Leibert et al.)

• Learning to Embrace Failure (Limoncelli et al.)

• Scaling Big Data Mining Infrastructure: The Twitter Experience (Lin and Rayboy)

Services Engineering Reading List / Posts

• Chaos Monkey Released Into The Wild (Bennett and Tseitlin)

Services Engineering Reading List / Research Groups

• Twitter Research

May 19 - May 25, 2014

Services Engineering Reading List / Presentations

• Design, Lessons, and Advice from Building Distributed Systems at Google (Dean)

Services Engineering Reading List / Books

• Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Nygard)

May 12 - May 18, 2014

Services Engineering Reading List / Papers

• The Incident Command System (Bigley and Roberts)

• Kafka: A Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing (Kreps et al.)

• The Human Side of Postmortems (Zwieback)

Services Engineering Reading List / Posts

• The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction (Kreps)

• Incident Response at Heroku (McGranaghan)

Services Engineering Reading List / Conferences

• Monitorama

Apr 14 - Apr 20, 2014

Services Engineering Reading List / Papers

• Resident Distributed Datasets: a Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing (Zahari et al.)

• Crew Resource Management: a Positive Change for the Fire Service

Services Engineering Reading List / Research Groups

• Berkley AMP Lab

Feb 24 - Mar 02, 2014

Services Engineering Reading List / Papers

• On Designing and Deploying Internet Scale Services (Hamilton)

Services Engineering Reading List / Books

• Effective Monitoring and Alerting (Ligus)

Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2014

Services Engineering Reading List / Books

• The Field Guide To Understanding Human Error (Dekker)

Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2014

Services Engineering Reading List / Books

• Managing the Unexpected (Weick and Sutcliffe)

Jan 06 - Jan 12, 2014

Services Engineering Reading List / Books

• Resilience Engineering in Practice (Hollnagel et al.)

Dec 30 - Jan 05, 2013

Services Engineering Reading List / Books

• The Challenger Launch Decision (Vaughan)

Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2013

Services Engineering Reading List / Posts

• The Trouble with Clocks (Kingsbury)

Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2013

Services Engineering Reading List / Papers

• Making Reliable Distributed Systems in the Presence of Software Errors (Armstrong)

• Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations (Bailis et al.)

• The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely Coupled Distributed Systems (Burrows)

• Bigtable: a Distributed Storage System for Structured Data (Chang et al.)

• Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database (Corbett et al.)

• Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-Value Store (DeCandia et al.)

• Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets (Melnik et al.)

• Out of the Tar Pit (Moseley and Marks)

• In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Ongaro and Ousterhout)

• Dapper, A Large Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure (Sigelman et al.)

Services Engineering Reading List / Posts

• My Philosophy on Alerting (Ewaschuk)

Services Engineering Reading List / Conferences

• Surge

Oct 07 - Oct 13, 2013

Services Engineering Reading List / Papers

• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters (Dean and Ghemawat)

• The Google File System (Ghemawat et al.)

• Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population (Pinheiro et al.)

• Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained (Rotem-Gal-Oz)

• F1 - The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google’s Ad Business (Shute et al.)

Services Engineering Reading List / Posts

• Resilience Engineering: Part I, Part II (Allspaw)

• Systems Engineering: a Great Definition (Allspaw)

• Some Rules for Engineering and Operations (Black)

• Service Level Disagreements Part I, Part II (Black)

• You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (Hale)

• Customer Trust (Hamilton)

• Observations on Errors, Corrections, & Trust of Dependent Systems (Hamilton)

• Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate’s Opinion (Helland)

• Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (Hodges)

• The Network is Reliable (Kingsbury)

• Call Me Maybe: Final Thoughts (Kingsbury)

• Getting Real About Distributed Systems Reliability (Kreps)

• On HTTP Load Testing (Nottingham)

• Observability at Twitter (Watson)

Services Engineering Reading List / Presentations

• Service Design Best Practices (Hamilton)

Services Engineering Reading List / Books

• Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (Derby et al.)

• Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance (Gawande)

• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Gawande)

Services Engineering Reading List / Research Groups

• Berkeley Database Group

• Google Research

• Microsoft Systems Research

Services Engineering Reading List / Conferences

• Ricon

• Velocity