Staff Engineer Resources

27 vetted resources to help you master system design:

Online Resources:

1. Google Senior Staff (L7) Engineer's detailed whitepaper notes 

https://stephenholiday.com/notes/

http://dsrg.pdos.csail.mit.edu/2013/05/23/raft/

2. system-design-primer (hollistic resource for system design interviews) - 

https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

3. ByteByteGo system design newsletter - 

https://blog.bytebytego.com/?r=n49ky

Engineering Blogs:

1. Uber - https://www.uber.com/en-IN/blog/engineering/

2. Pinterest - https://lnkd.in/gN65jV2v

3. Snapchat - https://eng.snap.com/blog

4. Netflix - https://lnkd.in/gq-SWapT

5. Dropbox - https://dropbox.tech/

6. Google - https://ai.googleblog.com/

7. Meta - https://lnkd.in/gc9xnZQ8

8. Twitter - https://lnkd.in/gVVcSYNf

9. Jane Street - https://blog.janestreet.com/

10. Longer list https://lnkd.in/g3xqDpg6

Youtube Channels:

1. Martin Kleppman's channel - https://www.youtube.com/@kleppmann

2. CMU Database Group - https://www.youtube.com/@CMUDatabaseGroup

3. MIT6.824: Distributed Systems - https://lnkd.in/gtmXKew7

4. InfoQ - https://lnkd.in/g8jeP8AN

5. DistSys Reading Group - https://lnkd.in/gdX7DQzq

6. TLA+ Video Course - https://lnkd.in/gUYB_FxX

7. System Design Interview - https://lnkd.in/gTcKcva5

8. USENIX - https://lnkd.in/gaPu3Qbh

Books:

1. Designing Data Intensive Systems by Martin Kleppman https://lnkd.in/gMhbvW23

2. Specifying Systems by Leslie Lamport - https://lnkd.in/gYzdwwBh

3. System Design Interview by Alex Xu - https://lnkd.in/gzUBcRe3

4. Database Internals by Alex Petrov - https://lnkd.in/gMC9B9UR

5. Building Microservices by Sam Newman - https://lnkd.in/gz5cwpG9

6. Distributed Systems by Maarten Van Steen - https://lnkd.in/g4VYvkgy