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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Johnson, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Surveys Volume 34 Issue 3, September 2002. Aug 17 - SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. Araújo, K. RFC 1498, August 1993.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I’d been using the Internet since about 1984, for email and newsgroups, sharing files like my white papers via ftp sites, but in the early 1990’s the world wide web came along, and Sun was a very early adopter. Later on after some re-orgs we ended up reporting to Greg Papadopoulos, who was CTO of the server organization at the time.

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