An organized reading list that collects curated links to articles, case studies, and engineering talks explaining how to design scalable, reliable, and performant large-scale systems. The material is intended for reading through a web interface or Markdown file and does not require coding or software installation.
Project overview
The repository aggregates concepts explained by prominent engineers alongside architectural case studies from production systems, providing a focused entry point for understanding large-scale system design.
Project type
Infrastructure · Learning Resources
Use cases
Learning & Education
Deployment
Refer to project documentation
License
MIT
Best for
Developers and researchers seeking a curated, text-based index of external articles and case studies on large-scale system design.
Key capabilities
Provides curated links to articles and references explaining principles of scalable, reliable, and performant large-scale systems.
Provides curated links documenting real-world architectures with completed diagrams and engineering talks from tech giants.
Limitations and risks
Self-hosted deployment, local runnability, and managed service availability are not documented for this project.
The project consists of reading material and does not include databases, external services, models, or hardware requirements.
GPU requirements, telemetry collection, cost dependencies, and data boundaries are not documented.
Getting started
Visit the project website at awesome-scalability.com or open and read the README.md file in the repository. The setup difficulty is documented as easy because it only requires reading.
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README: An updated and organized reading list for illustrating the patterns of scalable, reliable, and performant large-scale systems. Concepts are explained in the articles of prominent…
GitHub project description: The Patterns of Scalable, Reliable, and Performant Large-Scale Systems
README: > Look at some [interview notes](#interview) and [real-world architectures with completed diagrams](#architecture) to get a comprehensive view before designing your system on whit…
README: > Contributions are greatly welcome! You may want to take a look at the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).