* This System Design Primer [1] on GitHub is a decent overview of how large-scale apps are designed, with jumping-off points into many different subjects. * Th

* This System Design Primer [1] on GitHub is a decent overview of how large-scale apps are designed, with jumping-off points into many different subjects. * The Morning Paper blog's distributed systems tag [2] has a lot of good summaries of research on distributed systems, both from academia and industry. * I maintain a list of assorted resources on distributed system design and operations on GitHub. [3] * Also, as mentioned, Designing Data-Intensive Applications is a good starting place. [1] https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer [2] https://blog.acolyer.org/tag/distributed-systems/ https://blog.acolyer.org/tag/distributed-systems/ [3] https://github.com/DylanSp/distributed-systems-resources https://github.com/DylanSp/distributed-systems-resources