Effective Papers

I talked about the importance of reading foundational papers last week. To followup, here is my compilation of foundational papers in the distributed systems area. (I focused on the core distributed systems area, and did not cover networking, security, distributed ledgers, verification work etc. I even left out distributed transactions, I hope to cover them at a later date.)  I classified the papers by subject, and listed them in chronological order. I also listed expository papers and blog posts at the end of each section. Time and State in Distributed Systems Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System. Leslie Lamport, Commn. of the ACM,  1978. Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of a Distributed System. K. Mani Chandy Leslie Lamport, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 1985. Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems.  Mattern, F. 1988. Expository papers and blog posts There is No Now . Justin Sheehy, ACM Queue 2015 Why...

We are entering 2020, and this is a good time to retrospect and review the past decade from the lens of this blog, which started late 2010. I started posting regularly on September 2010. I wanted to get into the cloud computing domain, so I needed to accumulate background on cloud computing work. I decided that as I read papers on cloud computing, I will post a summary to this blog. I thought if I could explain what I learned from the papers in my own words, I would internalize those lessons better. And if others read those summaries and benefit, that is an extra plus. Initially I reviewed and posted paper summaries on big data processing systems and NoSQL distributed databases to catch up on these areas. Around 2010s, misrepresentation of the CAP theorem by NoSQL proponents was a problematic issue. I covered some papers that try to clarify this issue. Throughout the years, I covered many papers that discussed the different consistency guarantees offered by distributed databases. Tr...