Distributed Computing Papers

My career has been building platforms and products for distributed systems. Early in my career, much of my focus was on distributed networks of (what are now called) IoT devices: tens of thousands of systems distributed across the globe, backed by a SOA control plane. Today I work building platforms for distributed concurrent systems powering global communications and IoT.

I've collected a number of papers around distributed algorithms, metrics and monitoring, and statistical analysis. You can find my favorite distributed computing white papers on GitHub.

Here are a few samples get you started.

• Raft consensus algorithm, used by Consul and etcd for distributed metadata, service discovery, coordinated locks, and more.
• Online calculation of quantiles over data streams - efficient real time calculation of quantiles for streaming metrics.
• Dapper distributed tracing system - And see Zipkin for Twitters implementation.
• SWIM membership protocol - a peer to protocol for membership.

If you are looking for any particular help or have questions, ping me at @alowe on Twitter.