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• Twitter Heron: Stream Processing at Scale (2015) Sanjeev Kulkarni, Nikunj Bhagat, Maosong Fu, Vikas Kedigehalli, Christopher Kellogg, Sailesh Mittal, Jignesh M. Patel, Karthik Ramasamy, Siddarth Taneja [PDF]

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• Building Consistent Transactions with Inconsistent Replication (2015) Irene Zhang, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Dan R. K. Ports [PDF]

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• Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures: An Analysis of Production Failures in Distributed Data-Intensive Systems (2014) Ding Yuan, Yu Luo, Xin Zhuang, Guilherme Renna Rodrigues, Xu Zhao, Yongle Zhang, Pranay U. Jain, and Michael Stumm[PDF]

• Why Does the Cloud Stop Computing? Lessons from Hundreds of Service Outages (2016) Haryadi S. Gunawi, Mingzhe Hao, Riza O. Suminto, Agung Laksono, Anang D. Satria, Jeffry Adityatama, Kurnia J. Eliazar [PDF]

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• Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing (2012) Matei Zaharia, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Tathagata Das, Ankur Dave, Justin Ma, Murphy McCauley, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica [PDF]

• PNUTS: Yahoo!'s hosted data serving platform (2009) Brian F. Cooper, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Utkarsh Srivastava, Adam Silberstein, Philip Bohannon, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Nick Puz, Daniel Weaver and Ramana Yerneni [PDF]

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• Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion (2015) Pat Helland [PDF]

• Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database (2012) James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, JJ Furman, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild, Wilson Hsieh, Sebastian Kanthak, Eugene Kogan, Hongyi Li, Alexander Lloyd, Sergey Melnik, David Mwaura, David Nagle, Sean Quinlan, Rajesh Rao, Lindsay Rolig, Yasushi Saito, Michal Szymaniak, Christopher Taylor, Ruth Wang, Dale Woodford [PDF]

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• TaxDC: A Taxonomy of nondeterministic concurrency bugs in datacenter distributed systems (2016) Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Jeffrey F Lukman,Shan Lu, Haryadi S Gunawi p [PDF]

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• Silent Data Corruptions at Scale (2021) Harish Dattatraya Dixit, Sneha Pendharkar, Matt Beadon, Chris Mason, Tejasvi Chakravarthy, Bharath Muthiah, Sriram Sankar [PDF]

• FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store (2021) Jingyu Zhou, Meng Xu, Alexander Shraer, Bala Namasivayam, Alex Miller, Evan Tschannen, Steve Atherton, Andrew J. Beamon, Rusty Sears John Leach, Dave Rosenthal, Xin Dong, Will Wilson, Ben Collins, David Scherer, Alec Grieser, Young Liu, Alvin Moore, Bhaskar Muppana, Xiaoge Su, Vishesh Yadav [PDF]

• Sundial: Fault-tolerant Clock Synchronization for Datacenters (2021) Juliang Li, Gautam Kumar, Hema Hariharan, Hassan Wassel, Peter Hochschild, and Dave Platt, Simon Sabato, Minlan Yu, Nandita Dukkipati, Prashant Chandra, Amin Vahdat [PDF]

• Running BGP in Data Centers at Scale (2021) Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Kausik Subramanian, Alexey Andreyev, Hyojeong Kim, Nanda Kishore Salem, Jingyi Yang, Petr Lapukhov, Aditya Akella, Hongyi Zeng [PDF]

• Amazon Redshift Re-invented (2022) Nikos Armenatzoglou, Sanuj Basu, Naga Bhanoori, Mengchu Cai, Naresh Chainani, Kiran Chinta Venkatraman Govindaraju, Todd J. Green, Monish Gupta, Sebastian Hillig, Eric Hotinger Yan Leshinksy, Jintian Liang, Michael McCreedy, Fabian Nagel, Ippokratis Pandis, Panos Parchas Rahul Pathak, Orestis Polychroniou, Foyzur Rahman, Gaurav Saxena, Gokul Soundararajan Sriram Subramanian, Doug Terry [PDF]