"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