Here you have a short introduction on what being a developer means.

White Papers

• Google Labs Links:
  • https://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html
• System Design Publications: These ones are very influential ones. From a personal perspective they are the gold standard on how a paper should be: deep, technical, succinct, clear, concise.
  • Google File System (https://research.google.com/archive/gfs.html)
  • Google Bigtable (https://research.google.com/archive/bigtable.html)
  • Google MapReduce (https://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html)