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 A curated list of selected readings to illustrate Scalability, Availability, and Stability Design Patterns in Back-end Development.
 
 #### What if your backend went slow?
-> Understand your problems: performance problem (slow for a single user) or scalability problem (fast for a single user but slow under heavy load) by reviewing [design principles](#principles). You can also check some [talks](#talks) of elite engineers from tech giants (Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc).
+> Understand your problems: performance problem (slow for a single user) or scalability problem (fast for a single user but slow under heavy load) by reviewing [design principles](#principles). You can also check some [talks](#talks) of elite engineers from tech giants (Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc) to see how they build and scale their systems.
 
 #### What if your backend went down?
 > "Even if you lose all one day, you can build all over again if you retain your calm!" - Thuan Pham, CTO at Uber Technologies Inc.
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 ## Talks
 * [Building Real Time Infrastructure at Facebook - Jeff Barber and Shie Erlich, Software Engineer at Facebook](https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon17americas/program/presentation/erlich)
+* [Building Reliable Social Infrastructure for Google - Marc Alvidrez, Senior Manager at Google](https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon16/program/presentation/alvidrez)
 * [How We've Scaled Dropbox - Kevin Modzelewski, Back-end Engineer at Dropbox](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc)
 * [Lessons of Scale at Facebook - Bobby Johnson, Director of Engineering at Facebook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCHiNEw73AU)
 * [Scaling Instagram Infrastructure - Lisa Guo, Instagram Engineering](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpzNAPiC0E)