Reading list for distributed systems

Another good one (from someone who worked at Amazon) is Pat Helland's "Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion" which details more generally how a system might work without a global transactions. Part of which boils down to delivering idempotent messages to services.

I thought it was interesting because there are a lot of parallels with how REST works but also service orientated architectures.

The paper (and presentation) can be found here (which I'm sure has a few more gems on the page): http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2007/program.html

Akamai also has a decent list of publications that provide some insight on how they do things: http://www.akamai.com/html/perspectives/techpubs.html

I recommend the following from that list: * Keeping Track of 70,000+ Servers: The Akamai Query System * Improving Performance on the Internet * The Akamai Network: A Platform for High-Performance Internet Applications * Scaling a Monitoring Infrastructure for the Akamai Network

Might be gauche, but I'd like to plug an intro to concurrency and distributed systems I wrote a couple of years ago:

http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/04/dismal-guide-to-concurrency....

Related: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-resources-for-learni...

Evan Weaver (systems engineer at Twitter) put together a great list of distributed system papers as well. His list is categorized and every paper in it is awesome.

distributed systems primer: http://blog.evanweaver.com/2009/05/04/distributed-systems-pr...

distributed systems primer (update): http://blog.evanweaver.com/2010/08/12/distributed-systems-pr...

I found this site recently and it has a nice set of recent distributed systems papers: http://www.systemswemake.com/

It's a good complement because it focuses more on system design rather than theory.

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/ contains summaries of important cloud computing papers.