• Paper reading list:

Consistent Global State	O. Babaoglu and K. Marzullo. Consistent Global States of Distributed Systems. K. M. Chandy and L. Lamport. Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of Distributed Systems. SIGOPS Hall of Fame L. Lamport. Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System. E.W. Dijkstra Prize 2000, SIGOPS Hall of Fame
Atomic Commit	Bernstein, Goodman and Hadzilacos. Distributed Recovery
Replication	F.B. Schneider. Implementing fault-tolerant services using the state machine approach: a tutorial. SIGOPS Hall of Fame T. Bressoud and F.B. Schneider. Hypervisor-based Fault-Tolerance. SOSP Best Paper Award
Paxos	L. Lamport: The Part-Time Parliament. SIGOPS Hall of Fame L. Lamport: Paxos Made Simple. R. van Renesse: Paxos made moderately complex M.J. Fischer, N.A. Lynch, and M.S. Paterson. Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process. E.W. Dijkstra Prize, 2001.
Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)	L. Lamport, R. Shostak, and M. Pease. The Byzantine Generals Problem. E.W. Dijkstra Prize, 2005. M. Castro and B. Liskov. Practical Byzantine Fault-Tolerance. J. Yin, J.P. Martin, A. Venkataramani, L. Alvisi, and M. Dahlin. Separating Agreement from Execution for Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Services
Storage	M. Rosenblum and J. Ousterhout. The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System. SIGOPS Hall of Fame 2012. C. Huang, H. Simitci, Y. Xu, A. Ogus, B. Calder, P. Gopalan, J. Li, and S. Yekhanin. Erasure Coding in Windows Azure Storage.
Google	Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung. The Google File System. Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters. Chang et. al. Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data. Mike Burrows. The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems. Corbett et. al. Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database.
Other industrial systems	DeCandia et. al. Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store. D. Beaver, S. Kumar, H. Li, J. Sobel, and P. Vajgel. Finding a needle in Haystack: Facebook’s photo storage. E. Nightingale, J. Elson, J. Fan, O. Hofmann, J. Howell, and Y. Suzue. Flat Datacenter Storage.
Weaker consistency	D. B. Terry, M. M. Theimer, K. Petersen, A. J. Demers, M. J. Spreitzer and C. H. Hauser. Managing Update Conflicts in Bayou, a Weakly Connected Replicated Storage System W Lloyd, M. Freedman, M. Kaminsky, and D. Andersen. Don’t Settle for Eventual: Scalable Causal Consistency for Wide-Area Storage with COPS. J. Li, M. Krohn, D. Mazieres, and D. Shasha. Secure Untrusted Data Repository (SUNDR)
Computation Platforms	Zaharia et. al. Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing (Also known as Spark) M. Isard, M. Budiu, Y. Yu, A. Birrell, and D. Fetterly. Dryad: Distributed Data-Parallel Programs from Sequential Building Blocks. D. Murray, F. McSherry, R. Isaacs, M. Isard, P. Barham, and M. Abadi. Naiad: A Timely Dataflow System.

• Necessary skills: Linux, Latex, C/Java, Hadoop series (HDFS, MapReduce, HBase, and ZooKeeper)