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| 1 | ## Services Engineering Reading List | |
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| 3 | * A reading list for services engineering, with a focus on cloud infrastructure services | |
| 4 | * Most content is on applied distributed systems and systems operations | |
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| 5 | * WIP: please send suggestions to [@mmcgrana](https://twitter.com/mmcgrana) or [open a GitHub issue](https://github.com/mmcgrana/services-engineering/issues) | |
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| 7 | #### Papers | |
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| 9 | * [Making Reliable Distributed Systems in the Presence of Software Errors](http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf) (Armstrong) | |
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| 10 | * [Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations](http://www.bailis.org/papers/hat-vldb2014.pdf) (Bailis et al.) | |
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| 11 | * [The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely Coupled Distributed Systems](http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/chubby-osdi06.pdf) (Burrows) | |
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| 12 | * [Bigtable: a Distributed Storage System for Structured Data](http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/chang06bigtable.pdf) (Chang et al.) | |
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| 13 | * [Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database](http://research.google.com/archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf) (Corbett et al.) | |
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| 14 | * [Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-Value Store](http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/decandia07dynamo.pdf) (DeCandia et al.) | |
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| 15 | * [MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters](http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf) (Dean and Ghemawat) | |
| 16 | * [The Google File System](http://research.google.com/archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf) (Ghemawat et al.) | |
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| 17 | * [On Designing and Deploying Internet Scale Services](http://mvdirona.com/jrh/talksAndPapers/JamesRH_Lisa.pdf) (Hamilton) | |
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| 18 | * [Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets](http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/36632.pdf) (Melnik et al.) | |
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| 19 | * [Out of the Tar Pit](http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf) (Moseley and Marks) | |
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| 20 | * [In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm](https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/11370504/raft.pdf) (Ongaro and Ousterhout) | |
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| 21 | * [Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population](http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf) (Pinheiro et al.) | |
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| 22 | * [Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained](http://www.rgoarchitects.com/Files/fallacies.pdf) (Rotem-Gal-Oz) | |
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| 23 | * [F1 - The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google’s Ad Business](http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/38125.pdf) (Shute et al.) | |
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| 24 | * [Dapper, A Large Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure](http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/36356.pdf) (Sigelman et al.) | |
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| 25 | * [Resident Distributed Datasets: a Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi12/nsdi12-final138.pdf) (Zahari et al.) | |
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| 26 | * [Crew Resource Management: a Positive Change for the Fire Service](http://www.iaff.org/06news/NearMissKit/6.%20Crew%20Resource%20Management/CRM.pdf) | |
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| 29 | #### Posts | |
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| 31 | * [Resilience Engineering: Part I](http://www.kitchensoap.com/2011/04/07/resilience-engineering-part-i/), [Part II](http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/06/18/resilience-engineering-part-ii-lenses/) (Allspaw) | |
| 32 | * [Systems Engineering: a Great Definition](http://www.kitchensoap.com/2011/07/18/systems-engineering-great-definition/) (Allspaw) | |
| 33 | * [Some Rules for Engineering and Operations](http://blog.b3k.us/2012/01/24/some-rules.html) (Black) | |
| 34 | * [Service Level Disagreements Part I](http://blog.b3k.us/2009/07/15/service-level-disagreements.html), [Part II](http://blog.b3k.us/2009/07/16/service-level-disagreements-2.html) (Black) | |
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| 35 | * [Design, Lessons, and Advice from Building Distributed Systems at Google](http://odbms.org/download/dean-keynote-ladis2009.pdf) (Dean) | |
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| 36 | * [My Philosophy on Alerting](https://docs.google.com/document/d/199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa8eMWi8zzAn0YfcApr8Q/edit#heading=h.whsaboyw21nk) (Ewaschuk) | |
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| 37 | * [You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance](http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/) (Hale) | |
| 38 | * [Customer Trust](http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2013/01/15/CustomerTrust.aspx) (Hamilton) | |
| 39 | * [Observations on Errors, Corrections, & Trust of Dependent Systems](http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2012/02/26/ObservationsOnErrorsCorrectionsTrustOfDependentSystems.aspx) (Hamilton) | |
| 40 | * [Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate’s Opinion](http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs227/archives/2012/papers/weaker/cidr07p15.pdf) (Helland) | |
| 41 | * [Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods](http://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/) (Hodges) | |
| 42 | * [The Network is Reliable](http://aphyr.com/posts/288-the-network-is-reliable) (Kingsbury) | |
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| 43 | * [The Trouble with Clocks](http://aphyr.com/posts/299-the-trouble-with-timestamps) (Kingsbury) | |
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| 44 | * [Call Me Maybe: Final Thoughts](http://aphyr.com/posts/286-call-me-maybe-final-thoughts) (Kingsbury) | |
| 45 | * [Getting Real About Distributed Systems Reliability](http://blog.empathybox.com/post/19574936361/getting-real-about-distributed-system-reliability) (Kreps) | |
| 46 | * [On HTTP Load Testing](http://www.mnot.net/blog/2011/05/18/http_benchmark_rules) (Nottingham) | |
| 47 | * [Observability at Twitter](https://blog.twitter.com/2013/observability-at-twitter) (Watson) | |
| 48 | * [Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant](https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX) (Yegge) | |
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| 50 | #### Presentations | |
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| 52 | * [Service Design Best Practices](http://www.mvdirona.com/jrh/TalksAndPapers/JamesHamilton_POA20090226.pdf) (Hamilton) | |
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| 54 | #### Books | |
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| 56 | * [The Field Guide To Understanding Human Error](http://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error/dp/0754648265) (Dekker) | |
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| 57 | * [Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great](http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Retrospectives-Making-Teams-Great/dp/0977616649) (Derby et al.) | |
| 58 | * [Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312427654) (Gawande) | |
| 59 | * [The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right](http://www.amazon.com/The-Checklist-Manifesto-ebook/dp/B0030V0PEW) (Gawande) | |
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| 60 | * [High Performance Browswer Networking](http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/index.html) (Grigorik) | |
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| 61 | * [Resilience Engineering in Practice](http://www.amazon.com/Resilience-Engineering-Practice-Ashgate-Studies/dp/1409410358/) (Hollnagel et al.) | |
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| 62 | * [Effective Monitoring and Alerting](http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Monitoring-Alerting-For-Operations/dp/1449333524) (Ligus) | |
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| 63 | * [The Challenger Launch Decision](http://www.amazon.com/The-Challenger-Launch-Decision-Technology/dp/0226851761) (Vaughan) | |
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| 64 | * [Managing the Unexpected](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IK9U4U) (Weick and Sutcliffe) | |
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| 66 | #### Research Groups | |
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| 68 | * [Berkley AMP Lab](https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/) | |
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| 69 | * [Berkeley Database Group](http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/w/) | |
| 70 | * [Google Research](http://research.google.com/) | |
| 71 | * [Microsoft Systems Research](http://research.microsoft.com/en-US/groups/sr/default.aspx) | |
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| 73 | #### Conferences | |
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| 75 | * [Ricon](http://ricon.io/) | |
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| 76 | * [Surge](http://surge.omniti.com/) | |
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| 77 | * [Velocity](http://velocityconf.com/) | |
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| 79 | #### Courseware | |
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| 81 | * [University of Illinois CS 525: Advanced Distributed Systems](http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs525/sp2011/sched.htm) |