"The Architecture of Open Source Applications" Volumes I & II http://aosabook.org/en/

"Manifesto for Agile Software Development" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development#The...

"Catalog of Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" https://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/

Fowler > Publications ("Refactoring ",) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fowler#Publications

"Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" (GoF book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns

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UNIX Philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

Plan 9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

## Distributed Systems

CORBA > Problems and Criticism (monolithic standards, oversimplification,): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_A...

Bulk Synchronous Parallel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_synchronous_parallel

Paxos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)

Raft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft_(computer_science) #Safety

CAP theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem