tharwaat/the-engineering-compendium

The Engineering Compendium is a curated collection of over 700 learning resources for software engineers, including articles, research papers, open source repositories, books, and videos. Rather than being a personal blog or a tutorial site, it functions like a well organized reading list assembled by a practitioner over years of study and bookmarking. The collection is organized into topic sections covering a wide range of backend and infrastructure subjects, including databases, distributed systems, system design and architecture, networking, security, cloud infrastructure, performance optimization, machine learning, and engineering career growth. Each section contains links to external resources that the author selected for providing lasting, non obvious value, not beginner introductions, but material that has changed how the author thinks about a problem. You would use this compendium if you are a backend engineer, system designer, or anyone working on the infrastructure side of software and wants a structured way to find high quality reading material on a specific topic. Instead of searching through the internet each time you want to learn about, say, event streaming or container orchestration, this repository gives you a pre filtered starting point that skips the noise of generic search results. It is community driven, meaning contributors can open a pull request to add links they believe meet the bar for lasting value. There is no code to run, the repository is a markdown document with links organized by category, so browsing it is as simple as opening the file in a browser or an editor. The full README is longer than what was shown.