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There are a couple of papers and articles that i keep coming back to them every now and then to re-read. And after every read i get new insights out of them.
The Duct Tape Programmer https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/09/23/the-duct-tape-programmer/
A Note on Distributed Computing (Paper) http://www.psinaptic.com/link_files/distributed_computing.pdf
"On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services" (Paper).. actually i needed to reference a couple of things from this paper a few days ago at work https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ecc8/3096d1368ff7bdb78a13731774002207cf6d.pdf
END-TO-END Arguments in system design (Paper) https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf
Immutability Changes Everything (Paper).. Honestly you should just go and read all of Pat Helland's papers and articles http://cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers/CIDR15_Paper16.pdf
i'm pretty sure i've forgotten some interesting articles and papers, so i'll keep updating this thread every time i remember something.
