Distributed Systems Classics

 (nvartolomei.com)

32 points | by grep_it 1 hour ago

3 comments

  • nesarkvechnep 27 minutes ago
    As always, lists like these don’t include Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis “Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors” - http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
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    • jermberj 12 minutes ago
      No disrespect meant to Mr. Armstrong, but it's possible it's never listed because it's basically a textbook. It's 295 pages. The rough average of all papers in OP is like 15 pages.
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      • moritz 3 minutes ago
        One can skip the Erlang-specific things/the description of the programming language.

        Just the first 2 chapters (~30p) + the Conclusion (~10p) contain a lot of useful food for thought.

      • vulcan01 9 minutes ago
        His thesis is only slightly longer than typical PhD theses, I think.
    • Suhinnall27 21 minutes ago
      Are there any other works that should also be included that you know of?
  • nylonstrung 15 minutes ago
    Lamport is the author of more than half of these, it's crazy how influential he is in this space

    In addition to making LaTex which has almost nothing to do with it

  • bestpickle 4 minutes ago
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