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Start with the best.

Each list picks the deepest articles on one subject and keeps itself up to date as new ones arrive.

Postmortems worth your time
Honest accounts of outages and near misses from teams that run big systems: what happened, why, and what they changed. Only the detailed ones, depth 4 and up.
2 reads
How big systems scale
Sharding, replication, queues and caching as practised by the teams who had to make them work. Depth 4 and up, so every entry has real numbers and trade-offs.
3 reads
Performance work and big migrations
What was slow and how it got fast, and how teams moved huge systems without stopping them. Measured, specific and detailed: depth 4 and up.
17 reads