I love designing systems and reading about systems design. In my mind this topic is closely related to distributed systems but it is broader and encapsulates front-end and backend, and different technologies and tradeoffs in designs. I guess a distributed system is just one kind of system, and each component in a larger system could be its own distributed system. It’s a fractal. I dunno, maybe one day I’ll combine both reading lists into one.

Blogs

High Scalability

Real-world system architectures

Brief History of Scaling Uber

Microservices

So, You Want to Move to Microservices? (Josh Clemm)

Vector databases

Faiss: A library for efficient similarity search (Hervé Jegou, Matthijs Douze, Jeff Johnson)