Ask HN: How do I find technical papers (for distributed systems)?

3 pointscivicsquid2y ago3 comments

I want to read some technical papers on distributed systems to understand what work has been in focus over the past few years and to learn a bit more about those topics. One thing I'm not sure about is how to even find papers like that and then how to read them once I do.

I think USENIX's OSDI would have some relevant stuff, but the best thing I can do right now is search through proceedings as in https://www.usenix.org/publications/proceedings/OSDI which is a bit overwhelming.

Can anyone suggest reading lists or other methods for finding / viewing papers that might be helpful here?

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cratermoon2y ago

For a while, at a blog titled "the morning paper", Adrian Colyer, senior technical staff member at IBM, wrote over 1000 "short summaries of important, influential, topical or otherwise interesting papers in the field of computer science". I found the articles on Mergeable Replicated Data Types to be fascinating.

https://blog.acolyer.org/tag/distributed-systems/

johndoe08152y ago

Distributed systems is a very broad research topic nowadays, so it might make sense to check conferences covering a narrower topic, e.g. Cloud computing. Google Scholar might give some useful results for more specific search terms.

The reading lists for distributed systems university courses might also be interesting as well as this "awesome" link list on github:

https://github.com/theanalyst/awesome-distributed-systems

jzombie2y ago

I'm curious about reading through this as well, having spent a large part of the day using Illustrator to create vector graphics of centralized, decentralized, and distributed systems, and trying to figure out the perfect graphic to use for a hybrid scenario which represents all of them for a passion project of mine.

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