Architecture

Compute + Overall

• The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines , L.A. Barroso, U. Holzle, Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture, 2009. Chapter 1 and 2.

Networks

• VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network, Greenberg et al., SIGCOMM 2009.

• Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network, Singh et al., SIGCOMM 2015.

Storage (in a bit detailed fashion)

• The Hadoop Distributed File System, Schvachko et al, MSST, 2010

• The Google File System, Ghemawat et al, SOSP, 2003.

• NFS: Sun's Network File System

• Flat Datacenter Storage. Nightingale et. al, OSDI, 2012.

• EC-Cache: Load-balanced, Low-latency Cluster Caching with Online Erasure Coding. Rashmi et. al, OSDI, 2016

• f4: Facebook’s Warm BLOB Storage System. Muralidhar et. al, OSDI, 2014.

• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data. Chang et. al, OSDI, 2006.

• Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store. DeCandia et. al, SOSP, 2007.

• Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database. Corbett et. al, OSDI, 2012.

• An Analysis of Facebook Photo Caching. Huang et. al, SOSP, 2013.

• Scaling Memcache at Facebook. Nishtala et. al, NSDI, 2013.

• The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems. Mike Burrows, OSDI, 2006.