(https://www.google-analytics.com)  (https://nvartolomei.com/rss.xml)  Distributed Systems Classics (../favicon.png)        (../../fonts.googleapis.com/css@family=Lora%253A400,400i,700,700i.css)  (index.html)  (../webpack-runtime-78dacfe9be0494e95859.js)  (../framework-de237a875aa45b276a9d.js)  (../cb54706e-5e1a20a430230c74cf7b.js)  (../app-ff306dbbc7eb4573e83e.js)  (../styles-e9d24b1846c7d6eb9685.js)  (../commons-baf1d12de576da7527ef.js)  (../cd452b49d389fa37db2ec3695d2527add9564add-e321ef158fcdf94835aa.js)  (../component---src-templates-blog-post-js-abdd8ab319e4b8079cfb.js)  (https://nvartolomei.com/page-data/dist-sys-classics/page-data.json)  (https://nvartolomei.com/page-data/sq/d/2841359383.json)  (https://nvartolomei.com/page-data/app-data.json)   Distributed Systems Classics (https://nvartolomei.com/) Nicolae Vartolomei  · 2017/11 , updated on 2022/09   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. (https://doi.org/10.1145/359545.359563) https://doi.org/10.1145/359545.359563  Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease. 1982. The Byzantine
Generals Problem. (https://doi.org/10.1145/357172.357176) https://doi.org/10.1145/357172.357176  K. Mani Chandy and Leslie Lamport. 1985. Distributed snapshots: determining
global states of distributed systems. (https://doi.org/10.1145/214451.214456) https://doi.org/10.1145/214451.214456  Michael J. Fischer, Nancy A. Lynch, and Michael S. Paterson. 1985. Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process. (https://doi.org/10.1145/3149.214121) https://doi.org/10.1145/3149.214121  Brian M. Oki and Barbara H. Liskov. 1988. Viewstamped Replication: A New
Primary Copy Method to Support Highly-Available Distributed Systems. (https://doi.org/10.1145/62546.62549) https://doi.org/10.1145/62546.62549  Leslie Lamport. 1998. The part-time parliament. (https://doi.org/10.1145/279227.279229) https://doi.org/10.1145/279227.279229  Leslie Lamport. 2001. Paxos Made Simple. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/paxos-made-simple/) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/paxos-made-simple/  Satoshi Nakamoto. 2008. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. (https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper) https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper  Marc Shapiro, Nuno Preguiça, Carlos Baquero, and Marek Zawirski. 2011. Conflict-free replicated data types. (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2050613.2050642) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2050613.2050642  Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout. 2014. In search of an understandable
consensus algorithm. (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2643634.2643666) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2643634.2643666     (https://nvartolomei.com/) Nicolae Vartolomei