awesome-distributed-systems
A curated list of awesome distributed systems books, papers, resources and shiny things.
Bootcamp
- CAP Theorem
- Fallacies of Distributed Computing
- Distributed systems theory for the distributed engineer
Chinese version: 面向分布式系统工程师的分布式系统理论
Books
- Distributed Systems for fun and profit
- Distributed Systems Concepts and Design(Fifth Edition) - George Coulouris
- Distributed Systems Principles and Paradigms - Andrew Tanenbaum
- 走向分布式
Courses
- Cloud Computing Concepts, University of Illinois
- CMU: Distributed Systems in Go Programming Language
- Principles of Distributed Computing
- Distributed Systems Fall 2015
- Distributed Systems - MIT
- Introduction to Distributed System Design - Google Code University
Papers
Storage
- Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key Value Store
- Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
- The Google File System
- Cassandra: A Decentralized Structured Storage System
- Availability in Globally Distributed Storage Systems
- Sheepdog: Distributed Storage System for KVM
- PacificA: Replication in Log-Based Distributed Storage Systems
- Finding a needle in Haystack: Facebook’s photo storage
- Windows Azure Storage: A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency
Databases
Resource Management
- Apache Hadoop YARN: Yet Another Resource Negotiator
- Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center
Data Processing
- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
- Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing
Query Processing
- Design and Implementation of a Query Processor for a Trusted Distributed Data Base Management System
Messaging Systems
- The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction
Chinese version 日志：每个软件工程师都应该知道的有关实时数据的统一概念 - Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processin
Distributed Consensus
- The Part Time Parliament, Lamport's original Paxos paper, but it's a bit difficult to understand.
- Paxos Made Simple, a more terse readable Paxos paper by Lamport himself.
- The Chubby Lock Service for loosely coupled distributed systems
- Paxos made live - An engineering perspective
- Raft Consensus Algorithm
- Paxos vs Raft