This repository is a curated reference of official documentation, specifications, RFCs, and postmortems for backend, infrastructure, systems, networking, and security engineering.
It is not a blog collection, tutorial list, or motivational guide.
Contributions must maintain this focus.
Resources must meet all of the following:
- Primary sources (official documentation, RFCs, standards)
- Authoritative technical references
- Incident postmortems from reputable engineering teams
- Security standards (NIST, OWASP, MITRE, etc.)
- Tool documentation widely used in production
Examples:
- Go / Rust / C++ official docs
- PostgreSQL documentation
- RFCs from rfc-editor.org
- Linux kernel documentation
- Docker, systemd, OpenSSL official docs
- Well-documented open source project manuals
The following will not be merged:
- Blogs, Medium articles, Dev.to posts
- YouTube videos, courses, tutorials
- Opinion pieces, personal notes
- Marketing material or SEO-driven content
- Duplicate or redundant resources
If it cannot be used in real production engineering work, it does not belong here.
- Open an issue before submitting large changes.
- Keep links minimal, high-quality, and relevant.
- Place each resource in the correct category.
- Do not add commentary or subjective notes.
- Submit one resource per pull request unless clearly related.
Each addition must include:
- Category placement
- Direct link (no tracking parameters)
- Official source when possible
Resources may be removed if:
- They are outdated
- They are superseded by better official sources
- They no longer meet quality criteria
- Precision over volume
- Authority over popularity
- Depth over accessibility
This repository prioritizes usable, production-grade knowledge.
All contributions are licensed under MIT.
By contributing, you agree to license your work under the same terms.