Reading list for distributed systems

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by fs111 • 15 years ago

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_Lemon_• 15 years ago

Another good one (from someone who worked at Amazon) is Pat Helland's "Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion" which details more generally how a system might work without a global transactions. Part of which boils down to delivering idempotent messages to services.

I thought it was interesting because there are a lot of parallels with how REST works but also service orientated architectures.

The paper (and presentation) can be found here (which I'm sure has a few more gems on the page): http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2007/program.html

mad442• 15 years ago

Here is a summary of the paper from http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2011/04/life-beyond-distrib...

jamii• 15 years ago

The architecture of the smarkets.com exchange is largely based on that paper. I can't recommend it enough.

ahalan• 15 years ago

chubot• 15 years ago

I found this site recently and it has a nice set of recent distributed systems papers: http://www.systemswemake.com/

It's a good complement because it focuses more on system design rather than theory.

aristus• 15 years ago

Might be gauche, but I'd like to plug an intro to concurrency and distributed systems I wrote a couple of years ago:

http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/04/dismal-guide-to-concurrency....

briandoll• 15 years ago

Evan Weaver (systems engineer at Twitter) put together a great list of distributed system papers as well. His list is categorized and every paper in it is awesome.

distributed systems primer: http://blog.evanweaver.com/2009/05/04/distributed-systems-pr...

distributed systems primer (update): http://blog.evanweaver.com/2010/08/12/distributed-systems-pr...

mad442• 15 years ago

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/ contains summaries of important cloud computing papers.

akg• 15 years ago

Akamai also has a decent list of publications that provide some insight on how they do things: http://www.akamai.com/html/perspectives/techpubs.html

I recommend the following from that list: * Keeping Track of 70,000+ Servers: The Akamai Query System * Improving Performance on the Internet * The Akamai Network: A Platform for High-Performance Internet Applications * Scaling a Monitoring Infrastructure for the Akamai Network

Reading list for distributed systems

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