25 Papers That Completely Transformed the Computer World

Here are 25 papers that have significantly impacted the field of computer science:

• Dynamo - Amazon’s Highly Available Key Value Store

• Google File System: Insights into a highly scalable file system

• Scaling Memcached at Facebook: A look at the complexities of Caching

• BigTable: The design principles behind a distributed storage system

• Borg - Large Scale Cluster Management at Google

• Cassandra: A look at the design and architecture of a distributed NoSQL database

• Attention Is All You Need: Into a new deep learning architecture known as the transformer

• Kafka: Internals of the distributed messaging platform

• FoundationDB: A look at how a distributed database

• Amazon Aurora: To learn how Amazon provides high-availability and performance

• Spanner: Design and architecture of Google’s globally distributed database

• MapReduce: A detailed look at how MapReduce enables parallel processing of massive volumes of data

• Shard Manager: Understanding the generic shard management framework

• Dapper: Insights into Google’s distributed systems tracing infrastructure

• Flink: A detailed look at the unified architecture of stream and batch processing

• A Comprehensive Survey on Vector Databases

• Zanzibar: A look at the design, implementation and deployment of a global system for managing access control lists at Google

• Monarch: Architecture of Google’s in-memory time series database

• Thrift: Explore the design choices behind Facebook’s code-generation tool

• Bitcoin: The ground-breaking introduction to the peer-to-peer electronic cash system

• WTF - Who to Follow Service at Twitter: Twitter’s (now X) user recommendation system

• MyRocks: LSM-Tree Database Storage Engine

• GoTo Considered Harmful

• Raft Consensus Algorithm: To learn about the more understandable consensus algorithm

• Time Clocks and Ordering of Events: The extremely important paper that explains the concept of time and event ordering in a distributed system