This resources list is sufficiently far away from a list of serious references (at least for the areas I am best versed, database) as to not even qualify as int

This resources list is sufficiently far away from a list of serious references (at least for the areas I am best versed, database) as to not even qualify as introductory. Consider this entry: Safe Operations For High Volume PostgreSQL -- (this is for PostgreSQL but works great for other db as well). The editorial comment couldn't be more wrong in it's fundamental assumption as the article discusses implementation specific limitations of PostgreSQL and their implementation specific workarounds. This isn't on par with reading, for example, Oracle's SAME methodology (https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/performance/opt-storage-conf-130048.pdf https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/performance/opt-...) which might be generalizable to other databases since the paper deals as much with storage in general as it does how Oracle makes use of that storage. I would be wary of spending more time on this list based on the overall quality I've seen in this area.