A few interesting ideas from AWS Builders Library –

• design APIs to be safe for retries or idempotent for resiliency
• shuffle sharding to distribute load as system scales
• Amazon’s approach to failing successfully.

Toyota’s Five-why’s approach to root cause a problem – is good but not enough to find all other root causes that might also cause a problem.

Couple great talks on serverless

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzU_WjobaRA

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fup5vHEvU50

Smithy is an Apache-2.0 licensed, protocol-agnostic IDL for defining APIs, generating clients, servers and documentation. https://github.com/awslabs/smithy