What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems

What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems

What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems For quite some time now I've been trying to learn about distributed systems, and it's appropriate to say that once you start digging, there seems to be no end to it, the rabbit hole goes on and on. The literature in distributed systems is quite extensive, with lots of papers coming from different universities, plus quite a few books to choose from. For a total beginner like me, it proved hard to decide what paper to read, or what book to buy. At the same time, I've found that several bloggers recommend this or that paper that one must know in order to become a distributed systems engineer (whatever that means). So the list of things to read grows: FLP , Zab , Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed Systems , Viewstamped Replication , Paxos , Chubby and on and on. My problem is that many times I don't see a justification of why I should read this or that paper.

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