Recommended Reading - The Practice of Cloud System Administration - page 481

Theory:
• In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure ( Burgess
2013 )
The physics of distributed systems.
• Promise Theory: Principles and Applications ( Burgess & Bergstra 2014 )
The theory of configuration management and change management.
Classic Google Papers:
• “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” ( Brin & Page
1998 )
The first paper describing the Google search engine.
• “Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture” ( Barroso, Dean &
Hölzle 2003 )
Google's first paper revealing how clusters are designed using commodity class
PCs with fault-tolerant software.
• “The Google File System” ( Ghemawat, Gobioff & Leung 2003 )
• ”MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters” ( Dean & Ghemawat
2004 )
• “Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data” ( Chang et al. 2006 )
• “The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems” ( Burrows
2006 )
• “Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database” ( Corbett et al. 2012 )
• “The Tail at Scale” ( Dean & Barroso 2013 )
Improving latency means fixing the last percentile.
• “Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population” ( Pinheiro, Weber & Barroso
2007 )
Longitudinal study of hard drive failures.
• “DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study” ( Schroeder, Pinheiro &
Weber 2009 )
Longitudinal study of DRAM failures.