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Reference and Selective Reading

This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.

Curriculum surface​

  • Open learner-facing unit
  • Curriculum path: content/curriculum/production/semester-08-system-design-leadership/module-04-scale-reliability-performance/reference/index.md
  • App: production
  • Semester: semester-08-system-design-leadership
  • Module: module-04-scale-reliability-performance
  • Unit kind: reference
  • Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives​

  • Explain Reference and Selective Reading as an operational tradeoff problem spanning latency, throughput, resilience, and cost instead of one-dimensional scaling advice.
  • Use Reference and Selective Reading to reason about bottlenecks, graceful degradation, and production-readiness choices before a system is under stress.
  • Use fundamentals-of-software-architecture, system-design-primer to connect the learner page to load patterns, capacity planning, reliability mechanisms, and performance budgets.

Prerequisites​

  • Comfort reasoning about synchronous and asynchronous architectures, bottlenecks, and failure modes.

Source books​

  • fundamentals-of-software-architecture
  • system-design-primer

Source routes​

Fundamentals Of Software Architecture​

  • /books/fundamentals-of-software-architecture via FoSA: Architecture Characteristics Defined, FoSA: Cross-Cutting Architecture Characteristics, FoSA: Explicit Characteristics, FoSA: Fitness Functions, FoSA: Implicit Characteristics, FoSA: Measuring Architecture Characteristics, FoSA: Operations and DevOps

System Design Primer​

  • /books/system-design-primer via System Design Primer: Application Layer and Microservices, System Design Primer: Asynchronism, System Design Primer: Availability Patterns, System Design Primer: CAP Theorem, System Design Primer: Cache Overview and Levels, System Design Primer: Cache Update Patterns, System Design Primer: Consistency Patterns, System Design Primer: Content Delivery Network, System Design Primer: Latency vs Throughput, System Design Primer: Load Balancer, System Design Primer: Performance vs Scalability, System Design Primer: Powers of Two and Latency Numbers, System Design Primer: Reverse Proxy

Supporting curriculum routes​

No supporting curriculum routes linked yet.

External enrichment​

  • Google SRE Workbook (official_docs_companion) - Connects scaling and reliability ideas to operational practices learners can inspect and emulate.
  • AWS Well-Architected Reliability Pillar (official_docs_companion) - Provides a practical resilience lens for evaluating failure handling and recovery tradeoffs.

AI companion modes​

  • Explain simply
  • Diagnose my confusion
  • Revision mode
  • Connect forward / backward

Source-of-truth note​

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance assembled from multiple canonical book routes. Use the listed source books as the primary conceptual spine for Reference and Selective Reading, and treat outside material as supporting enrichment only.