- Architecture of a Database System by Joseph M. Hellerstein1, Michael Stonebraker2 and James Hamilton3
- What Problems to Solve - by Richard Feynman
- Canon TDD - Kent Beck
- "the overall performance improvement gained by optimizing a single part of a system is limited by the fraction of time that the improved part is actually used" - Gene Amdahl
- Open Group POSIX specifications - The IEEE and The Open Group