WhitePapers Worth Reading

Here are some awesome white papers from Google, Amazon, Meta, and Apache. These white papers are worth your time if you are a software enthusiast or a tech geek.

Google

1. Google File System
2. Map Reduce Big Data Algorithm
3. BigTable NoSQL Document Store
4. Colossus Next Gen File Store
5. Megastore Large Object Store
6. Monarch Time Series DB
7. Chubby Distributed Lock Management
8. Spanner Distributed Database
9. Spanner - CAP theorem considerations
10. Dapper Tracing System
11. Borg Cluster Management
12. Zanzibar Authentication System
13. Pregel Graph Processing
14. Napa - Data Warehousing
15. Napa - Partitioning Algorithm
16. TensorFlow - Machine Learning at Scale
17. F1 - Fast Analytics
18. HALP - YouTube Content Delivery Network
19. Mesa - Data Warehousing
20. Firestore

Amazon

1. Amazon Aurora DB Architecture
2. Dynamo DB NoSQL Database

Misc

1. Foundation DB NewSQL database
2. Monolith Embedding in real time
3. Scalability at what COST

Meta

1. Gorilla Time series DB
2. Cassandra NoSQL DB
3. FlexiRaft Distributed Concensus Tradeoffs
4. Memcache In-memory Cache
5. Millisampler Network Sampling
6. TAO Graph Database
7. MineSweeper - Root Cause Analysis
8. Prophet - Forecasting at Scale
9. ShardManager
10. Hive - Map Reduce Jobs
11. Thrift - Definition Language
12. Twine - Unified Cluster Management System
13. ServiceRouter - Hyperscale and Servicemesh from Meta

Apache

1. Hadoop File System
2. Kafka Event Bus
3. Flink

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Whitepapers have the benefit of discussing practical implementation details and the related tradeoffs to engineering products.

The best engineers worldwide have written them after years of work, so don't miss any of them!