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Distributed Systems Classics (2017)

The gist

Nicolae Vartolomei published "Distributed Systems Classics" in November 2017, a curated list of influential papers.
It gives newcomers a starting point for understanding distributed systems research.

How it unfolded

  1. 1978Leslie Lamport published "Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system".
  2. 1982Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease published "The Byzantine Generals Problem".
  3. 1985K. Mani Chandy and Leslie Lamport published "Distributed snapshots: determining global states of distributed systems"; Michael J. Fischer, Nancy A. Lynch, and Michael S. Paterson published "Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process".

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