Steve Vinoski recommends these papers

One does not need a degree from the IIT  to read and understand these papers. These are accessible and one has to persevere. That is all. In India technical work is considered taboo because the society thinks it is the prerogative of people with advanced degrees.

Steve Vinoski recommends these papers.

“Eventual Consistency Today: Limitations, Extensions, and Beyond”, Peter Bailis, Ali Ghodsi. This article provides an excellent description of eventual consistency and
recent work on eventually consistent systems.

“A comprehensive study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types”, M. Shapiro, N. Preguiça, C. Baquero, M. Zawirski. This paper explores and details data types that work well for applications built on eventually consistent systems.

“Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods”, J. Hodges. This excellent blog post succinctly summarizes the past few decades of
distributed systems research and discoveries, and also explains some implementation concerns we’ve learned along the way to keep in mind when build distributed applications.

“Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process”, M.Fischer, N. Lynch, M. Paterson. This paper is nearly 30 years old but is critical to understanding fundamental properties of distributed systems.

“Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store”, G. DeCandia, et al. A classic paper detailing trade-offs for high availability distributed systems.