Distributed Systems Classics
This article provides a curated list of foundational academic papers in the field of distributed systems. It covers essential concepts such as consensus, replication, and clock synchronization.
Why it matters
These papers form the theoretical bedrock for modern cloud computing, blockchain technology, and large-scale data infrastructure.
A 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.
Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease. 1982. The Byzantine Generals Problem.
K. Mani Chandy and Leslie Lamport. 1985. Distributed snapshots: determining global states of distributed systems.
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