Nearly mandatory for infrastructure engineering

The papers that turn up in the design review of every distributed system.

7 papers, in the order to read them. A paper that needs another one first is listed under it.

1
Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
Leslie Lamport, 1978
happens-before, logical clocks, and state machine replication
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2
The Part-Time Parliament
Leslie Lamport, 1998
consensus that survives any minority failing, told as an archaeology paper
Read first: Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
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3
The Google File System
Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, Shun-Tak Leung, 2003
a single master, huge chunks, and failure as the normal case
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4
MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, 2004
two functions, and the framework handles the thousand machines
Read first: The Google File System
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5
Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store
Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani and others, 2007
always writable, reconciled later, with consistent hashing and vector clocks
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6
In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm
Diego Ongaro, John Ousterhout, 2014
consensus decomposed into leader election, log replication and safety
Read first: The Part-Time Parliament
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7
Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
Abhishek Verma, Luis Pedrosa, Madhukar Korupolu and others, 2015
one scheduler for batch and serving, and the ancestor of Kubernetes
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