Best distributed systems blogs to follow
26 of the 211 blogs in the full directory of engineering blogs are tagged Distributed systems. Each one is listed below with a one-line description and who recommended it.
Martin Kleppmann and Jack Vanlightly are the usual starting points, and Murat Demirbas reviews distributed systems papers at a pace few people can match. Werner Vogels writes from the position of having run one of the largest of these systems, and Cindy Sridharan covers observability and testing in production.
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- Aleksey Charapko
Personal
Distributed systems research and paper reading-group notes
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Alex Miller
Personal
Databases, distributed transactions and storage
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Cindy Sridharan
Personal
Distributed systems, observability and testing in production
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Evan Jones
Personal
Distributed systems, databases and low-level performance
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Fred Hebert
Personal
Erlang, resilience engineering and incidents
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Gunnar Morling
Personal
Java, change data capture, Kafka and Flink
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Jack Vanlightly
Personal
Distributed systems, streaming, table formats and formal verification
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Joe Hellerstein
Personal
Databases and distributed systems research
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Lindsey Kuper
Personal
Distributed systems and programming languages research
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Marc Brooker
Personal
Distributed systems, databases and formal methods at AWS
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Martin Kleppmann
Personal
Distributed systems, CRDTs and local-first software
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Murat Demirbas
Personal
Distributed systems paper reviews, TLA+ and databases
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Phil Eaton
Personal
Databases, distributed systems and compilers
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Varun Upadhyay
Personal
Distributed computing paper notes and databases
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Vu Trinh (vutr)
Substack
Data-engineering system internals explained (warehouses, lakehouses, streaming)
Recommended by Mrinal (quote-tweet)
- Werner Vogels
Personal
All Things Distributed: cloud architecture from Amazon's CTO
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
- Amazon Builders' Library
Company
How Amazon builds and operates distributed systems
Recommended by Editor's pick
- AWS Architecture Blog
Company
Reference architectures on AWS
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Discord Engineering
Company
Real-time systems and storage migrations
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Flipkart Tech
Company
E-commerce infrastructure in India
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Meta Engineering
Company
Infrastructure, data and ML at Meta scale
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Netflix TechBlog
Company
Streaming, data platform and autoscaling at Netflix
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Razorpay Engineering
Company
Payments systems in India
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Slack Engineering
Company
Messaging infrastructure and reliability
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Stripe Engineering
Company
Payments infrastructure and reliability
Recommended by Editor's pick
- Uber Engineering
Company
Marketplace, data and storage systems
Recommended by Editor's pick
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