three favourite bookmarks of mine: Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System, Lamport. (1978) http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time

three favourite bookmarks of mine: Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System, Lamport. (1978) http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process, Fischer, Lynch, Patterson. (1985) http://macs.citadel.edu/rudolphg/csci604/ImpossibilityofConsensus.pdf http://macs.citadel.edu/rudolphg/csci604/ImpossibilityofCons... A History Of The Virtual Synchrony Replication Model, Birman. (2010) http://www.cs.cornell.edu/ken/History.pdf http://www.cs.cornell.edu/ken/History.pdf