awesome-distributed-systems

A (hopefully) curated list on awesome material on distributed systems, inspired by other awesome frameworks like awesome-python. Most links will tend to be readings on architecture itself rather than code itself.

Books

• Distributed Systems for fun and profit [Free]
• Distributed Systems Principles and Paradigms, Andrew Tanenbaum [Amazon Link]
• Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems [Free]

Papers

Must read papers on distributed systems. While nearly all of Lamport's work should feature here, just adding a few that must be read.

• Times, Clocks and Ordering of Events in Distributed Systems Lamport's paper, the Quintessential distributed systems primer
• The Part Time Parliament Paxos

Databases

• Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key Value Store
• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
• Cassandra: A Decentralized Structured Storage System

Blogs and other reading links

• The C10K problem
• On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services