I saw this The Confused World of "NoSQL" on Hacker News and liked it. Also, the author has a relatively nice list of distributed systems papers: Readings in Distributed Systems. Which, for the record, is also pretty close the list I would hand to someone who wanted to work with me on my big distributed system project(actually, I would probably just ( Read more... )

This is probably going to be a long technical post that only other programmer's would read, so I guess I'll put in a cut.

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CS240: Advanced Topics in Operating Systems. It has a fun reading list of papers at the bottom.

But they are all by the same author(Greg Linden):

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