I often argue that the toughest thing about distributed systems is changing the way you think. The below is a collection of material I've found useful for motivating these changes.
Thought Provokers
Ramblings that make you think about the way you design. Not everything can be solved with big servers, databases and transactions.
Latency
Amazon
Somewhat about the technology but more interesting is the culture and organization they've created to work with it.
Google
Current "rocket science" in distributed systems.
Consistency Models
Key to building systems that suit their environments is finding the right tradeoff between consistency and availability.
Theory
Papers that describe various important elements of distributed systems design.
Languages and Tools
Issues of distributed systems construction with specific technologies.
Infrastructure
Storage
Paxos Consensus
Understanding this algorithm is the challenge. I would suggest reading "Paxos Made Simple" before the other papers and again afterward.
Other Consensus Papers
Gossip Protocols (Epidemic Behaviours)
P2P
Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Protocol for Internet Applications
Kademlia: A Peer-to-peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric
Pastry: Scalable, decentralized object location and routing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems
PAST: A large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility - storage system atop Pastry
SCRIBE: A large-scale and decentralised application-level multicast infrastructure - wide area messaging atop Pastry
A Distributed Systems Reading List
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Introduction
I often argue that the toughest thing about distributed systems is changing the way you think. The below is a collection of material I've found useful for motivating these changes.
Thought Provokers
Ramblings that make you think about the way you design. Not everything can be solved with big servers, databases and transactions.
Latency
Amazon
Somewhat about the technology but more interesting is the culture and organization they've created to work with it.
Google
Current "rocket science" in distributed systems.
Consistency Models
Key to building systems that suit their environments is finding the right tradeoff between consistency and availability.
Theory
Papers that describe various important elements of distributed systems design.
Languages and Tools
Issues of distributed systems construction with specific technologies.
Infrastructure
Storage
Paxos Consensus
Understanding this algorithm is the challenge. I would suggest reading "Paxos Made Simple" before the other papers and again afterward.
Other Consensus Papers
Gossip Protocols (Epidemic Behaviours)
P2P
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October 21, 2024 at 03:37PM