Gauntlet

Guides, Articles, Podcasts, Videos and Notes to Build Reliable Large-Scale Distributed Systems.

Guides:

• Scaling Web Applications with NGINX, Part 1: Load Balancing.
• Running Nginx as Web Server/Reverse Proxy for Python Apps.
• Running Nginx as Web Server/Reverse Proxy for PHP Apps.
• How To Install LEMP stack on Ubuntu 18.04.
• Manage Log Files with logrotate on Ubuntu.
• Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 Edition.
• Automate and abstract: Lessons from Facebook on engineering for scale.
• How To Install Prometheus on Ubuntu 16.04.
• How To Create a Kubernetes 1.10 Cluster Using Kubeadm on Ubuntu 16.04.
• How to Install Kubernetes on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux.
• Container Tutorials.
• Microservices by Martin Fowler.
• How To Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 18.04.
• How To Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 20.04.
• Object Storage vs. Block Storage Services.
• System Design Primer.
• Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet.
• How To Configure a Galera Cluster with MariaDB on Ubuntu 18.04 Servers.
• How To Install MongoDB on Ubuntu 20.04
• How To Configure a MongoDB Replica Set on Ubuntu 20.04
• How To Manage Data with MongoDB
• Modernizing Applications for Kubernetes.
• How to Set Up an NFS Mount on Ubuntu 18.04.
• Setting Up LXD 16.04.
• Setting Up LXD 16.04.
• Securing Ubuntu VPS with Linux Firewall.
• How To Create a Multi-Node MySQL Cluster on Ubuntu 18.04.
• How To Migrate a Docker Compose Workflow to Kubernetes.
• Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views.
• Configure Zabbix to Securely Monitor Remote Servers on Ubuntu 18.04.
• Troubleshoot Issues in MySQL.
• Install And Configure QEMU In Ubuntu.
• Introducing go-qemu and go-libvirt.
• Orchestrator at GitHub.
• Containers from Scratch.
• How To Configure BIND as a Private Network DNS Server on Ubuntu 18.04.
• How To Deploy and Manage Your DNS using DNSControl on Ubuntu 18.04.
• Take OpenTracing for a HotROD ride.
• Monitoring, Microservices, Self-Healing and the Connection to AntiFragile Systems.
• How to break a Monolith into Microservices.
• Refactoring Module Dependencies.
• Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines.
• Container Ready Applications with Twelve-Factor App and Microservices Architecture.
• How To Setup a etcd Cluster.
• Unicode and Character Sets.
• Customizing Go Binaries with Build Tags.
• Uber Go Guide.
• How Sharding Works.
• The Vert.x Worker Model.
• An Overview of Go's Tooling.
• Logging Levels.
• Hacker Laws.
• The actor model in 10 minutes.
• RabbitMQ Exchanges, routing keys and bindings.
• Consistent Hashing - An Efficient & Scalable Data Distribution Algorithm.
• How To Install Cassandra and Run a Single-Node Cluster on Ubuntu 14.04
• How To Run a Multi-Node Cluster Database with Cassandra on Ubuntu 14.04
• K8S CSI Developer Documentation.
• Kafka Cluster Connect
• An Introduction to Networking Terminology, Interfaces, and Protocols.
• Understanding IP Addresses, Subnets, and CIDR Notation for Networking.
• Functools - The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python
• VPCs, subnets, and gateways fundamentals for working with containers in AWS
• AWS Networking Fundamentals
• How to Configure a Droplet as a VPC Gateway
• DigitalOcean VPC Service
• Use VPC Networks to Secure Your Servers and Other Best Practices
• An Introduction to PHP-FPM Tuning
• Handling Unix Signals in Python
• How To Add Swap Space on Ubuntu 20.04

Articles:

• Are You a Doer or a Talker?
• How to Manage Technical Debt.
• In Pursuit of Production Minimalism.
• The Netflix Simian Army.
• Strangler Fig Application.
• 12 Factor.
• 12 Design Principles.
• Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes.
• Technical Debt Is Like Tetris.
• Write code thats easy to delete, and easy to debug too.
• Semantic Import Versioning (Go & Versioning).
• Making sense of MVP.
• You've only added two lines.
• (A few) Ops Lessons We All Learn The Hard Way.
• Cloud Design Patterns.
• Python & Async Simplified.
• Modules, monoliths, and microservices.
• Principles of Chaos Engineering.
• Decouple your Symfony application using Domain Events.
• Circuit Breaker pattern.
• The Broken Window Theory.
• The Service Mesh Manifesto
• Building Blocks of TCP
• Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
• Git from the inside out
• How We Saved 70K Cores Across 30 Mission-Critical Services

System Capacity:

• How to Estimate How Many Website Visitors Your Server Can Deal With.

Engineering Blogs:

• 8thlight Blog.
• Quora Engineering.
• Reddit Engineering.
• Shopify Engineering.
• Slack Engineering Blog.
• Spotify Labs.
• Twitter Engineering.
• Yelp Engineering Blog.
• YouTube Engineering and Developers Blog.
• Import.io Blog.
• Instagram Engineering.
• LinkedIn Engineering Blog.
• Medium Engineering.
• Mixpanel Blog.
• Grafana
• Netflix Tech Blog.
• Pinterest Engineering.
• Airbnb Engineering and Data Science.
• Booking.com Tech Blog.
• Dropbox Tech Blog.
• eBay Tech Blog.
• Etsy Code as Craft.
• Stripe Engineering.
• Semaphore CI.
• Tailscale.
• AWS Builders.
• Changelog.
• Reddit.
• IBM Developer.
• Digitalocean Tutorials.
• Digitalocean Tech Talks.
• Monzo Technology
• Cloudflare
• YoLinux
• TLDR Engineering

Personal Blogs:

• Brandur Blog.
• Martin fowler Blog.
• Programming is Terrible.
• Joel on Software.
• Derek Sivers.
• Coding Horror.
• Yourbasic.
• Simple is better than complex.
• Neil on Software.
• Netmeister.
• Understand Legacy Code.
• The Modern JavaScript Tutorial.
• Learning Rust.
• Tutorial Works.
• High Performance Browser Networking.
• Tomgregory.
• Going the distance

Awesome List:

• Awesome Scalability
• Awesome
• nginx Admins Handbook
• Mongo Playbook
• Awesome SRE

Videos:

• dot Conferences.
• Hatch Talk Series: Three Startup Failures... And The Success That Made Up For It All.
• Scaling Instagram.
• Servers For Hackers.
• Microservices at Squarespace - Doug Jones and Kevin Lynch.
• Microservices.com Practitioner Summit 2017.
• Jaeger: Distributed Tracing at Uber.
• Strangling the Monolith
• The Role of Catastrophic Failure in Software Design.
• What is the event loop anyway?
• Observability 3 ways logging metrics tracing.
• Breaking Things on Purpose.
• Creating event-driven microservices: the why, how and what by Katherine Stanley
• Building Streaming Microservices with Apache Kafka
• Hashicorp Learn
• The Soul of Erlang and Elixir
• Rust Crash Course
• Sales Is Just Bad Marketing By GaryVee.
• Tech Talks
• Getting started with Grafana 8

Podcasts:

• Software Engineering Daily
• Podcasts for Developers
• Cloud Chats
• GaryVee

Books:

• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
• Microservice Architecture: Aligning Principles, Practices, and Culture
• Site Reliability Engineering & The Site Reliability Workbook
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Clean Code
• Clean Architecture
• Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
• Building Secure & Reliable Systems
• Designing Data Intensive Applications
• High Performance Browser Networking
• Cassandra The Definitive Guide
• Kafka Definitive Guide
• MongoDB: The Definitive Guide
• The Rust Programming Language
• Prometheus: Up & Running