[bandwitch]

If you liked this page, you might also like the excellent book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" that among others surveys many characteristics of large-scale systems and presents some. Note that it's not a book for preparing you on system design questions, but it can definitely help.

[crystalPalace]

I've been reading this and it's great so far. Are there other similar books that describe modern enterprise architecture at scale?

[jordanab]

I'm currently reading "Building Evolutionary Architectures", and I'm liking it so far.

[zjaffee]

Just wanted to give a +1 to Designing data intensive applications, it's really one of the best resources out there in terms of touching really most of the areas necessary for building out big data applications, where you can then know which areas you'd prefer to dive further into.

[hrshtr]

+1 to the book. It has been a great resource for me to understand lot of concepts on Distributed Systems