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Here is the topologically sorted roadmap of the 150 foundational blog articles, engineering essays, and classic papers, now updated with direct links to their canonical sources or official hosting domains. Each item features a distinct Read Priority (RP), a unique Understanding Priority (UP), and a qualitative Grade based on its impact on your system design mastery.

Module 1: Hardware, OS, and Mechanical Sympathy (RP 1–25)

Module 2: Core Distributed Concepts and Time (RP 26–50)

Module 3: Storage Engines and Single-Node Database Internals (RP 51–75)

Module 4: Consensus, Replication, and Fault Tolerance (RP 76–100)

Module 5: Distributed Transactions, Consistency, and Isolation (RP 101–125)

Module 6: Performance Engineering, Observability, and Scale (RP 126–150)