# mmcgrana/services-engineering

A reading list for services engineering, with a focus on cloud infrastructure services

Repository: https://github.com/mmcgrana/services-engineering
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/services-engineering
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-10-02T14:18:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4715, "days_push": 1431, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3692, forks 316 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:14.788776+00:00)

## What it is
A curated reading list of academic papers and essays on services engineering, focused on cloud infrastructure services. It collects foundational distributed systems papers from Google, Amazon, Twitter, and others.

## Use cases
- find classic distributed systems papers to read
- learn how Google and Amazon built cloud infrastructure
- study for a site reliability engineering role
- get a reading list on building scalable services
- understand fault injection and failure handling in production
- research consensus algorithms like Raft and Spanner

## When to choose
- you want a curated list of foundational cloud and distributed systems papers
- you are self-studying services engineering or SRE topics
- you need references for distributed storage, messaging, and reliability design

## When to avoid
- you need runnable software or code
- you want tutorials or hands-on exercises rather than academic papers
- you need up-to-date coverage of modern cloud tooling

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: developer-tools, documentation
- domain: microservices, cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code, developer-tools, tutorials
- platform: -
- tags: reading-list, papers, cloud-infrastructure, reliability, distributed-systems, site-reliability-engineering, web-server

## Member repositories
- mmcgrana/services-engineering (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:14.788776+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:31:07.040067+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mmcgrana/services-engineering (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:14.788776+00:00, sha 702bee379474)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.