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 ### Storage & Databases
 - [Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key Value Store](http://bnrg.eecs.berkeley.edu/~randy/Courses/CS294.F07/Dynamo.pdf)
+Paraphrasing @fogus from their [blog](http://blog.fogus.me/2011/09/08/10-technical-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice/), it is very rare for a paper describing an active production system to influence the state of active research in any industry; this is one of those seminal distributed systems paper that solves the problem of a highly available and fault tolerant database in an elegant way, later paving the way for systems like Cassandra, and many other AP systems using a consistent hashing.
 - [Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf)
 - [The Google File System](http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf)
-- [Cassandra: A Decentralized Structured Storage System](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.161.6751&rep=rep1&type=pdf) Inspired heavily by Dynamo
+- [Cassandra: A Decentralized Structured Storage System](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.161.6751&rep=rep1&type=pdf) Inspired heavily by Dynamo, an now an open source 
 - [CRUSH: Controlled, Scalable, Decentralized Placement of Replicated Data](http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/weil-sc06.pdf), the algorithm for the basis of Ceph distributed storage system, for the architecture itself read [RADOS](http://ceph.com/papers/weil-rados-pdsw07.pdf)
 
 ### Messaging systems
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 - [Files are hard](http://danluu.com/file-consistency/) A blog post on filesystem consistency, pretty important to read if you are into distributed storage or databases.
 - [Distributed Systems Testing: The Lost World](http://tagide.com/blog/research/distributed-systems-testing-the-lost-world/) Testing distributed systems are hard enough, a well researched blog post which again covers a lot of links to various approaches and other papers
 
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