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

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. By Werner Vogels on 18 December 2012 10:00 PM. May 28 - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems , Friedemann Mattern, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, North-Holland (1989) , p. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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