Distributed Systems Classics
Distributed Systems ClassicsNicolae Vartolomei · 2017/11, updated on 2022/09A selected list of timeless and influential papers in distributed systems that shaped the research in the field. Intended to serve as a good starting point for a better understanding of the problem space.Leslie Lamport. Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system. https://doi.org/10.1145/359545.359563Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease.
- ▪Distributed Systems ClassicsNicolae Vartolomei · 2017/11, updated on 2022/09A selected list of timeless and influential papers in distributed systems that shaped the research in the field.
- ▪Intended to serve as a good starting point for a better understanding of the problem space.Leslie Lamport.
- ▪Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system. https://doi.org/10.1145/359545.359563Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease.
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Distributed Systems ClassicsNicolae Vartolomei · 2017/11, updated on 2022/09A selected list of timeless and influential papers in distributed systems that shaped the research in the field. Intended to serve as a good starting point for a better understanding of the problem space.Leslie Lamport. 1978. Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system. https://doi.org/10.1145/359545.359563Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease. 1982. The Byzantine Generals Problem. https://doi.org/10.1145/357172.357176K. Mani Chandy and Leslie Lamport. 1985. Distributed snapshots: determining global states of distributed systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/214451.214456Michael J. Fischer, Nancy A. Lynch, and Michael S. Paterson. 1985.
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