system-design-primer

On this topic, here's a great reference for some common operations on high volume SQL databases: https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/safe-operations-for-h... Has anyone been collating large-scale SQL best practices into a book or similar? I've found high-level overviews such as this https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer, but lacks specifics to scaling SQL...I've only seen disparate blog posts like the one above.

I'm just a little over a year out of school myself, so I'm far from an expert, but happy to share some things that come to mind. I haven't had a chance to look through it in-depth yet, but this looks pretty interesting: https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer As far as things that have had an important impact in my learning path, I do have a few Ruby books I really like (the key here is to get your hands dirty with code as you read along): - https://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Under-Microscope-Illustrated-Int... - https://www.amazon.com/Metaprogramming-Ruby-Program-Like-Fac... - https://gumroad.com/l/rebuilding_rails I think reading about (and looking at the code) for things you use and trying to understand how they work under the hood has been super useful: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html Having smart people around to learn from is