20 Whitepapers that changed the world [For Senior Software Engineers]

Here are some whitepapers that you must read as a software engineer. These technologies have changed the world and inspired hundreds of systems through their ideas to tackle scale, reliability, and performance.

Whitepapers have the benefit of discussing practical implementation details and the related tradeoffs to engineering products. The best engineers worldwide have written them after years of work, so don't miss any of them!

00:00 Who should watch this?
00:29 Memcached Design Tradeoff
01:40 20. TikTok Monolith
02:55 19. Meta FlexiRaft
03:54 18. Google Spanner
04:30 17. Meta Minesweeper
05:33 16. Apache Cassandra
06:07 15. Apple FoundationDB
06:36 14. Amazon AuroraDB
07:11 13. Google Pregel
07:45 12. Google Dapper
08:37 11. Google Chubby
09:12 10. Google Megastore
10:04 9. Google Bigtable
10:44 8. Google Map-Reduce
11:38 7. Google File System
12:25 6. Meta TAO
13:05 5. Meta Memcached
13:40 4. Google Monarch
14:23 3. Meta GorillaDB
15:22 2. Amazon DynamoDB
15:52 1. Google Zanzibar
17:00 Links in Description

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[lemonadeintech]

These types of videos are much needed. Great work!

[Blk_Metropolis]

Gaurav just dumped a ton of learning on my plate. A feast.

[PrabyComm]

Man, when will you stop blowing our minds with your awesome content and mostly the selection of it.
Keep posting such awesome stuff.

[aryanmehta]

First youtuber whom I could watch at normal speed than 1.5x

[debakarr]

These kinds of video are really great. It feels like "here are the resources for some things you are interested in and go do the homework on the things you are interested in". Great content.

[pollathajeeva]

Raft paper should be on top because it is widely adapted for various use cases most of the Distributed SQL are using it.

[minhazulislam]

I just needed this right now. Thank you for the video.

[samriddhashukla]

Great Content Gaurav, I've just started working as a Data Architect and this video felt like an expedition to my own learnings in the past couple months. This is probably the best content I've gotten online in a long run, you should really dispense more knowledge on enterprise architecture as it is still a very untapped area in the online learning sphere.

[jetzeschaafsma]

I'm going to print all of these and make reading them my belated 2023 New Year's Resolution.

[DrumAdrian]

Great video! Thank you for taking the time to share this information 🤓

[noone_and_nobody]

Just 2 whitepapers deep into the discussion, I am loving this one.

[Roger-kvjw]

look forward to more videos like this from Gaurav!

[by]

One of my favorite videos so far. Thanks!

[techtalksabhishek]

God bless you Gaurav. I learnt a lot of stuff about system design from your videos. I come from a service background with focus on enterprise business applications but your content gave me the excitement to look at building applications that can scale. Good Job Keep it up

[naneri]

Hey Gaurav, huge thanks for this valuable content! Best wishes from Kyrgyzstan.

[gorangagrawal]

Thanks for the summaries. Those scrolling animations were quite hurting my eyes. Maybe it is because of my monitor's refresh rate.
I will suggest to make yourself as foreground when you are talking and those scrolling animations in background.

Also I would like if you can make individual detailed explanatory videos.

[amity.yr]

Since too long I was looking for something like this only but didn't know what to search...
Thanks it's very helpful
~ Danishan [Amity University]

[vishsri]

Thanks ...good summary narrative for each

[mahanteshambali]

It would be great if you could walk through these papers.
Deep dive one paper a week.

[anman]

Cassandra was developed by the same engineer who developed DynamoDB paper while he was at Amazon