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(Check out his website while you're at it!)
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This one’s for you, Cliff.
Don’t forget to lean into it.
The Reading List
The list is also available as a bibtex file if you’re into that sort of thing.
(Thanks, Guillaume Gens!)
The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics
by Paul McJones
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Access Path Selection in an RDBMS
by P. Griffiths Selinger & al.
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Amazon’s Dynamo
by Giuseppe DeCandia & al.
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BASE: an Acid Alternative
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The Byzantine Generals Problem
by Leslie Lamport & al.
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The CAP Theorem
by Seth Gilbert & Nancy Lynch
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Cassandra — A Decentralized Structured Storage System
by Avinash Lakshman & Prashant Malik
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Codd’s Relational Model
by E.F. Codd
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On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services
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The End of an Architectural Era
by Michael Stonebraker & al.
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Eventually Consistent
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Google’s BigTable
by Fay Chang & al.
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Google’s Chubby
by Mike Burrows
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Google’s MapReduce
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The Graph Traversal Pattern
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Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems
by Armando Fox & Eric Brewer
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CRDTs: Consistency without concurrency control
by Mihai Letia, Nuno Preguiça & Marc Shapiro
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Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion
by Pat Helland
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The Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM-Tree)
by Patrick O'Neil & al.
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Paxos Made Simple
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The Process Group Approach to Reliable Distributed Computing
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Stasis: Flexible Transactional Storage
by Russell Sears & Eric Brewer
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Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
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Timestamps in Message-Passing Systems That Preserve the Partial Ordering
by Colin J. Fidge
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The Transaction Concept: Virtues and Limitations
by Jim Gray
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A History of the Virtual Synchrony Replication Model
by Ken Birman
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Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems
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PNUTS: Yahoo!’s Hosted Data Serving Platform
by Brian F. Cooper & al.
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Benchmarking Cloud Serving Systems with YCSB
by Brian F. Cooper & al.