Papers I've read, each paired with a blog post where I dig into the ideas. Read the original paper, or jump into my notes.

ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems

Hunt et al., USENIX ATC 2010

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Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store

DeCandia et al., SOSP 2007

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Understanding the Limitations of Pub/Sub Systems

Databricks, HotOS 2025

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Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing

Kreps et al., NetDB 2011

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