#1
Paper: Online, Asynchronous Schema Change in F1
Online, Asynchronous Schema Changes in F1 (Rae et al.)
#6
Intro material on hot compatibility and relation to distribution + gradual rollouts.
#7
Book: Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions - recommended by @statik.
#10
Dynamo is easily understandable and a good intro to distributed eventually consisted databases. http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/cs239-w08/decandia07dynamo.pdf