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Reading list

Books and papers that keep showing up in real engagements.

A short shelf of things I keep recommending — not a curriculum, just the material that survives contact with production systems.

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications — for the vocabulary of failure modes
  • Site Reliability Engineering (Google) — for the parts about toil and error budgets
  • The Phoenix Project — for the conversation with people who do not want a lecture