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171 links saved from 2007 to 2026; 171 with a note, 116 in a Weekly Thing.
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- medium.com 8, tbray.org 5, youtube.com 4, blog.acolyer.org 3, martinfowler.com 3
2026
- Microsoft-Decision-1: Our model for fast decision-making
- If You Understand These 5 Platform Engineering Terms, You’re Ahead of 90%
- Lessons on Building MCP Servers
- Builders Unscripted: Ep. 1 - Peter Steinberger, Creator of OpenClaw
- A Deeper Dive into the ENSv2 Architecture
- Date is out, Temporal is in
- MCP is a fad | Tom Bedor's Blog
2025
2024
- Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems
- Queueing – An interactive study of queueing strategies
- 20 Years in the Making, GnuCOBOL Is Ready for Industry
- S3 is files, but not a filesystem
- The 14 pains of building your own billing system
- Observable 2.0
- The Big Little Guide to Message Queues
2023
- The Ten Rules of Schema Growth
- Incident Review: What Comes Up Must First Go Down
- Building an economy simulator from scratch
- AsyncIO | charles leifer
- Assembly time is where you have the most control of an incident
- Federation Architecture Overview
- Accelerating Value Flow with SAFe 6.0
- Uptime Guarantees — A Pragmatic Perspective
- Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.
- Tag Systems
- Fairness in multi-tenant systems
- 20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer
2022
- What Is A Black Start Of The Power Grid?
- The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy
- How to Build Software like an SRE
- Tech Notes: Notes on WebAssembly
- Cron best practices | Arabesque
- Some benefits of simple software architectures
- The most important thing to understand about queues
- The Delivery Hero Reliability Manifesto
- What Doesn't Need to Be Done
- Pay attention to WebAssembly
2021
- How Complex Systems Fail
- DAOs, A Canon
- A Brief Introduction to Container Logistics
- SLO Alerting for Mortals - ervin's blog
- URI-based Integration
- ADMIRE: A Product-Driven Approach to Automating Migrations
- How to safely think in systems
- Multiperspective System Architecture Diagramming · Ilograph developer blog
- The phases of remote adaptation
- Fastly crippled much of the Web, then issued the perfect apology
- How PagerDuty Leverages Customer Service Ops to Delight Customers
- How to Successfully Hand Over Systems | SoundCloud Backstage Blog
- Ethernet and IP Networking 101
- Orbit Blog — A tactical guide to kickstarting your community
- Diahook · Making Webhooks Easy and Reliable
- Mailbag: How to deal with unhappy users on your Internal platform?
- ARCHITECTURE.md
- 7 behaviours to avoid in a software architecture role
- The Big Little Guide to Message Queues
- Linear – The issue tracking tool you'll enjoy using
2020
- The Grand Unified Theory of Software Architecture - danuker | freedom & tech
- A review of consensus protocols
- Monolith -> Services: Theory & Practice | by Kent Beck | Oct, 2020
- Prometheus-Basics: A beginner friendly introduction to prometheus 🔥
- The Huge List Of Code You Need To Write To Start A SaaS
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Eventing Facets
- Meaningful availability
2019
- Adding a new teller | queuing theory example
- System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server
- Architectural Decision Records | adr.github.io
- The Single Most Important Internal Email in the History of Amazon
- The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
- Systems Thinking in Practice
- Continuous Compliance | Dave Farley’s Weblog
- Minimum Viable Bureaucracy
- Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer
- Painting a Picture of Your Infrastructure in Minutes | Spotify Labs
- Forget monoliths vs. microservices. Cognitive load is what matters.
- ongoing by Tim Bray · On SQS
- How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh
- CQRS and Event Sourcing Intro For Developers - Software House ASC
- Domain-Oriented Observability
- 7 Commandments for Event-Driven Architecture
- Don't Let the Internet Dupe you, Event Sourcing is Hard - Blogomatano
2018
- Designing resilient systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? (Part 1)
- Istio vs Hystrix
- ongoing by Tim Bray · SF-4: Serverless Latency?
- Tim Bray · Post-REST
- Introduction to OKRs
- Atlassian Incident Management Handbook
- See No Evil
- Post-mortems to the rescue
- Health Checks and Graceful Degradation in Distributed Systems
- Retool
- Evolution of Infrastructure Monitoring at ThousandEyes Engineering
- Keep a Changelog
- Do you need a service mesh?
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Automate Your Context - 2018 Monitorama
- Don't Get Distracted
- 6 things I’ve learned in my first 6 months using serverless
- Lessons from Building Static Analysis Tools at Google | April 2018
- Event Sourcing made Simple
- Run less software
- Structured Logging and Your Team
- Principles of Chaos Engineering
- Prometheus Blog Series (Part 1): Metrics and Labels
2017
- OpenEvents
- Calm Technology
- Chaos Toolkit
- DOES17 San Francisco - How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day - John Allspaw
- Gremlin - Break things on purpose.
- Low-risk Monolith to Microservice Evolution Part I
- The GRAKN.AI Ontology: Simplicity and Maintainability
- The Value of Optimizing for Resilience
- Application Network Functions With ESBs, API Management, and Now.. Service Mesh?
- Never Give Up, Retry: How Software Should Deal with Failures
- TODO Open Source Program Guides // TODO: Talk openly, develop openly
- Keep Calm and Carry On - Scaling Your Org with Microservices
- Rapid release at massive scale | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code
- Event Sourcing | Microsoft Docs
- Ops: It's everyone's job now
- Stop waiting for perfection and learn from your mistakes
- SmartGo Blog • SmartOthello Postmortem
- Determining Incident Priority —PagerDuty
- Logs and Metrics – Cindy Sridharan
- NASA's ten coding commandments
- Increment
- Online migrations at scale
2016
- The Art of Monitoring
- Serverless: Initial Learnings (part 1)
- Microservices, monoliths and laser nail guns: Etsy tech boss on finding the right focus — > S C A L E
- The 13 Things That Make a Good Build System
- Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 Edition
- Experience with Rules-Based Programming for Distributed Concurrent Fault-Tolerant Code
2015
- Promise You A Rose Garden - An essay about system management
- Moving Fast with Software Verification
- The Architecture Of Complexity — Herbert A. Simon
- Building DistributedLog: Twitter’s high-performance replicated log service
- Software development: Are you in for the long haul? — Unhandled Exception
- Seven Microservices Anti-patterns
- Moving Fast With High Code Quality - Engineering at Quora
- Engineering for the Long Game... - Astrid Atkinson Keynote
- Integrating Jira and LogicMonitor
2014
- Collins - Infrastructure Management for Engineers
- 15 rules for communicating at GitHub
- Build Quality In
- Putting a lasso on Salesforce development - Atlassian Blogs
- CDN acceptance testing for GOV.UK
- Dissecting Message Queues
- Queues
- Visualizations of Continuous Delivery
- Semantic Versioning 2.0.0
- NYTimes Architecture: No Head, No Master, No Single Point of Failure