This post collects links to various articles, blogs and videos, mainly for my own reference.
Clojure
Clojure for the Brave and True by Daniel Higginbotham
(Youtube) Kolmogorov music by Christopher Ford
Libraries
clojure.spec - Rationale and Overview by Rich Hickey
spec Guide original author: Alex Miller
Load Testing
Coordinated Backoff
(PDF) How NOT to Measure Latency by Matt Schuetze & Gil Tene
Everything You Know About Latency Is Wrong by Tyler Treat
Networking
Traffic Control HOWTO by Martin A. Brown