sources:
  - id: swebok2024
    title: "Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, Version 4.0"
    authors: "IEEE Computer Society; Hironori Washizaki, editor"
    year: 2024
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    local_path: "sources/web/swebok-overview.html"
    access_note: "Local snapshot of SEBoK overview and SWEBOK V4 knowledge area summary; official guide may require download form."
    chapters: ["All chapters"]
  - id: fintech-handbook
    title: "Fintech Engineering Handbook"
    authors: "Voytek Pitula"
    year: 2026
    canonical_url: "https://github.com/Krever/fintech-engineering-handbook"
    local_path: "sources/web/fintech-handbook-index.qmd"
    access_note: "Downloaded source manuscript used only as structural inspiration and attributed."
    chapters: ["Introduction", "How to read the evidence"]
  - id: evidence-reality-checks
    title: "Evidence Reality Checks Collection"
    authors: "Hillel Wayne and contributors"
    year: 2026
    canonical_url: "See downloaded source snapshot metadata."
    local_path: "sources/web/evidence-reality-checks.md"
    access_note: "Downloaded repository README; used as a framing source for evidence-respecting skepticism."
    chapters: ["Testing", "Process", "Quality", "Professional Practice"]
  - id: evidence-check-critique
    title: "Critique of an Evidence Reality Check"
    authors: "Alexander Chichigin"
    year: 2024
    canonical_url: "See downloaded source snapshot metadata."
    local_path: "sources/web/evidence-check-critique.html"
    access_note: "Downloaded web snapshot; used for its warning that skeptical summaries also need source checking."
    chapters: ["How to read the evidence", "Professional Practice", "Testing"]
  - id: no-silver-bullet
    title: "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering"
    authors: "Frederick P. Brooks Jr."
    year: 1987
    canonical_url: "https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/NoSilverBullet.html"
    local_path: "sources/web/no-silver-bullet.html"
    access_note: "Downloaded HTML mirror; used for the essence/accident distinction and anti-panacea framing."
    chapters: ["Requirements", "Management", "Process", "Economics"]
  - id: parnas1972
    title: "On the Criteria to be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules"
    authors: "David L. Parnas"
    year: 1972
    canonical_url: "https://doi.org/10.1145/361598.361623"
    local_path: "sources/papers/parnas-modules-1972.pdf"
    access_note: "Downloaded public course copy; ACM DOI is canonical."
    chapters: ["Architecture", "Design", "Models and Methods"]
  - id: dynamo2007
    title: "Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store"
    authors: "Giuseppe DeCandia et al."
    year: 2007
    canonical_url: "https://www.amazon.science/publications/dynamo-amazons-highly-available-key-value-store"
    local_path: "sources/papers/dynamo-amazon-2007.pdf"
    access_note: "Downloaded public PDF from allthingsdistributed.com."
    chapters: ["Architecture", "Computing Foundations", "Security"]
  - id: spanner2012
    title: "Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database"
    authors: "James C. Corbett et al."
    year: 2012
    canonical_url: "https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi12/technical-sessions/presentation/corbett"
    local_path: "sources/papers/spanner-osdi2012.pdf"
    access_note: "Downloaded public USENIX PDF."
    chapters: ["Architecture", "Computing Foundations", "Mathematical Foundations"]
  - id: kafka2011
    title: "Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing"
    authors: "Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede, and Jun Rao"
    year: 2011
    canonical_url: "https://www.odbms.org/2011/01/kafka-a-distributed-messaging-system-for-log-processing/"
    local_path: ""
    access_note: "Direct paper PDF was not downloaded; source is represented through canonical web metadata and Apache Kafka reference page."
    chapters: ["Configuration Management", "Operations", "Computing Foundations"]
  - id: borg2015
    title: "Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg"
    authors: "Abhishek Verma et al."
    year: 2015
    canonical_url: "https://research.google/pubs/large-scale-cluster-management-at-google-with-borg/"
    local_path: "sources/papers/borg-eurosys2015.pdf"
    access_note: "Downloaded public Google-hosted PDF."
    chapters: ["Operations", "Engineering Foundations"]
  - id: tail2013
    title: "The Tail at Scale"
    authors: "Jeffrey Dean and Luiz Andre Barroso"
    year: 2013
    canonical_url: "https://research.google/pubs/the-tail-at-scale/"
    local_path: "sources/web/tail-at-scale-google.html"
    access_note: "PDF endpoint blocked direct download; local web snapshot of Google Research page retained."
    chapters: ["Operations", "Quality", "Mathematical Foundations"]
  - id: autopilot2020
    title: "Autopilot: Workload Autoscaling at Google Scale"
    authors: "Krzysztof Rzadca et al."
    year: 2020
    canonical_url: "https://research.google/pubs/autopilot-workload-autoscaling-at-google-scale/"
    local_path: ""
    access_note: "Canonical ACM/Google page is recorded; direct PDF was not locally downloaded."
    chapters: ["Operations", "Economics", "Engineering Foundations"]
  - id: rag2020
    title: "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks"
    authors: "Patrick Lewis et al."
    year: 2020
    canonical_url: "https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2020/hash/6b493230205f780e1bc26945df7481e5-Abstract.html"
    local_path: "sources/papers/rag-neurips2020.pdf"
    access_note: "Downloaded public NeurIPS PDF."
    chapters: ["Architecture", "Case Study: Large-scale AI/RAG Systems", "Computing Foundations"]
  - id: jamwithai2026
    title: "System Design for AI Engineers: 7 patterns you should know in your interviews"
    authors: "Shirin Khosravi Jam"
    year: 2026
    canonical_url: "https://jamwithai.substack.com/p/system-design-for-ai-engineers-7"
    local_path: "sources/web/jamwithai-system-design.html"
    access_note: "Downloaded HTML snapshot; used as secondary framing for AI system design patterns."
    chapters: ["Case Study: Large-scale AI/RAG Systems", "Operations"]
  - id: cost2015
    title: "Scalability! But at What COST?"
    authors: "Frank McSherry, Michael Isard, and Derek G. Murray"
    year: 2015
    canonical_url: "https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/presentation/mcsherry"
    local_path: "sources/papers/cost-hotos2015.pdf"
    access_note: "Downloaded public USENIX PDF."
    chapters: ["Economics", "Quality", "Computing Foundations"]
  - id: vmwarmup2016
    title: "Virtual Machine Warmup Blows Hot and Cold"
    authors: "Edd Barrett et al."
    year: 2016
    canonical_url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00602"
    local_path: "sources/papers/vm-warmup-arxiv2016.pdf"
    access_note: "Downloaded public arXiv PDF."
    chapters: ["Construction", "Testing", "Quality"]
  - id: go2019
    title: "Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go"
    authors: "Tengfei Tu et al."
    year: 2019
    canonical_url: "https://songlh.github.io/paper/go-study.pdf"
    local_path: "sources/papers/go-concurrency-bugs-2019.pdf"
    access_note: "Downloaded public author-hosted PDF."
    chapters: ["Construction", "Maintenance", "Quality"]
  - id: formal2017
    title: "An Empirical Study on the Correctness of Formally Verified Distributed Systems"
    authors: "Pedro Fonseca, Kaiyuan Zhang, Xi Wang, and Arvind Krishnamurthy"
    year: 2017
    canonical_url: "https://doi.org/10.1145/3064176.3064183"
    local_path: ""
    access_note: "Direct PDF not downloaded; DOI and secondary source notes retained."
    chapters: ["Testing", "Security", "Quality"]
  - id: unix-philosophy
    title: "Basics of the Unix Philosophy"
    authors: "Local knowledgebase"
    year: 0
    canonical_url: ""
    local_path: "sources/local/basics-of-unix-philosophy.html"
    access_note: "Existing local HTML source copied into the handbook corpus."
    chapters: ["Design", "Construction", "Engineering Foundations"]
  - id: uml-local
    title: "UML Structural Modelling Slides"
    authors: "Local course material"
    year: 0
    canonical_url: ""
    local_path: "sources/local/uml-structural-modelling.pdf"
    access_note: "Existing local PDF copied into the handbook corpus."
    chapters: ["Design", "Models and Methods"]
