Some other classics (applied dist systems):
- DDB: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sos...
- MapReduce: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall13/cos518/p...
- Spark/RDDs: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi12/nsdi12...
- BigTable: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Worth mentioning that Dynamo (the classic 2007 paper) and DynamoDB (the modern AWS product) have fairly little in common architecturally.
For DynamoDB, check out https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/elhemal... https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc23/presentation/idziore... and my analysis of the differences here https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/08/15/dynamo-dynamodb-dsql.h...
Nice distinction, thanks!