bookstack
The bookstack.
System design and engineering books you can read free online, each with one line on what it's good for. Every book is published free by its authors or publisher and opens straight to the official copy.
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9 books
Site Reliability Engineering
Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
Reliability
How Google runs production: SLOs, error budgets, on-call, postmortems. Free from Google.
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The Site Reliability Workbook
Betsy Beyer, Niall Richard Murphy, David K. Rensin, Kent Kawahara, Stephen Thorne
Reliability
The hands-on follow-up: turning SRE ideas into alerts, SLOs and runbooks. Free from Google.
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Building Secure and Reliable Systems
Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, Adam Stubblefield
Security
Designing systems that stay up and stay safe, from least privilege to recovery. Free from Google.
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Distributed Systems
Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tanenbaum
System design
The textbook on replication, consistency and fault tolerance. Free personal digital copy from the authors.
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High Performance Browser Networking
Ilya Grigorik
Networking
TCP, TLS, HTTP/2 and what latency really costs your app. Free to read online.
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Use The Index, Luke
Markus Winand
Databases
SQL indexing explained for developers. The free web edition of SQL Performance Explained.
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Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
Foundations
Concurrency, memory and storage from the ground up. Free chapters from the authors.
read free ↗The Architecture of Open Source Applications
Amy Brown, Greg Wilson (eds.)
The Architecture of Open Source Applications
Amy Brown, Greg Wilson (eds.)
System design
The people who built well-known open source projects explain their architecture. Free online.
read free ↗Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit
Mikito Takada
Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit
Mikito Takada
System design
A short, readable intro to time, order, replication and consistency. Free online.
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