Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
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Re: Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
#2As always, lists like these don’t include Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis “Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors” - http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
Re: Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
#3As always, lists like these don’t include Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis “Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors” - http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
Are there any other works that should also be included that you know of?
Re: Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
#4Lamport is the author of more than half of these, it's crazy how influential he is in this space
In addition to making LaTex which has almost nothing to do with it
Re: Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
#5As always, lists like these don’t include Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis “Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors” - http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
No disrespect meant to Mr. Armstrong, but it's possible it's never listed because it's basically a textbook. It's 295 pages. The rough average of all papers in OP is like 15 pages.
Re: Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
#6As always, lists like these don’t include Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis “Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors” - http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
No disrespect meant to Mr. Armstrong, but it's possible it's never listed because it's basically a textbook. It's 295 pages. The rough average of all papers in OP is like 15 pages.
His thesis is only slightly longer than typical PhD theses, I think.
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Re: Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
#8As always, lists like these don’t include Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis “Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors” - http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
No disrespect meant to Mr. Armstrong, but it's possible it's never listed because it's basically a textbook. It's 295 pages. The rough average of all papers in OP is like 15 pages.
One can skip the Erlang-specific things/the description of the programming language.
Just the first 2 chapters (~30p) + the Conclusion (~10p) contain a lot of useful food for thought.
Re: Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
#9Lamport is the author of more than half of these, it's crazy how influential he is in this space In addition to making LaTex which has almost nothing to do with it
It's the thing that baffles me the most with those people, the Knuths and Lamports and Carmarcks, and whatnot.
It's not like they have light schedules - they do research, they have classes, they attendconference, and they have jobs, etc...
And some benefit from tenure, which give them time to deeply focus on some topics.
But I can't imagine how I would write tex in ten years in Pascal on archaic machines if I had all the time to myself.
Doing that in the middle of understanding more computer science than my eyes would ever read ?
What do they do with their time ? What do they don't do ? Are they able to skip the eating and pooping and sleeping and cleaning their house and picking up parcels at the post office and grocery shopping parts ?
Or a proto Unix being written in three weeks. Concretely, what are the days of those three weeks made of ? Especially since it's famously when the spouse was NOT there to handle the housekeeping...
I see not amount of "life hacks" and "atomic habits" and whatnot helping with that. But it's probably just as natural to them as biking - and you can't explain biking, I guess ?
Re: Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
#10As always, lists like these don’t include Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis “Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors” - http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
Does anyone use Elixir/Erlang anymore?