Nicolae Vartolomei · 2017/11 , updated on 2022/09 A selected list of timeless and influential papers in distributed systems that shaped the research in the field. Intended to serve as a good starting point for a better understanding of the problem space. Leslie Lamport. 1978. Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system. https://doi.org/10.1145/359545.359563 Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease. 1982. The Byzantine Generals Problem. https://doi.org/10.1145/357172.357176 K. Mani Chandy and Leslie Lamport. 1985. Distributed snapshots: determining global states of distributed systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/214451.214456 Michael J. Fischer, Nancy A. Lynch, and Michael S. Paterson. 1985. Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process. https://doi.org/10.1145/3149.214121 Brian M. Oki and Barbara H. Liskov. 1988. Viewstamped Replication: A New Primary Copy Method to Support Highly-Available Distributed Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/62546.62549 Leslie Lamport.…