As remembered by: Jonas Bonér et al.
A Universal Modular ACTOR Formalism for Artificial Intelligence - Carl Hewitt et al. - 1973
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.77.7898
Viewing Control Structures as Patterns of Passing Messages - Carl Hewitt et al. - 1976
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6272
Concurrent Programming Using Actors: Exploiting Large-Scale Parallelism - Carl Hewitt, Gul Agha - 1985
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6433
ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems - Gul Agha - 1985
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6952
Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors - Joe Armstrong - 2003
http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
Robust Composition: Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control - Mark Miller - 2006
http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/
Towards Haskell in the Cloud - Simon Peyton Jones et al. - 2011
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/parallel/remote.pdf
Active Object : An Object Behavioral Pattern for Concurrent Programming - R. Greg Lavender, Douglas C. Schmidt - 1996
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/Act-Obj.pdf
SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services - Matt Welsh, et al. - 2001
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/papers/seda-sosp01.pdf
Ideal Hash Tries - Phil Bagwell - 2001
http://lampwww.epfl.ch/papers/idealhashtrees.pdf
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming - Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi - 2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepts,_Techniques,_and_Models_of_Computer_Programming
Mozart/Oz Programming System - Dataflow Concurrency
http://www.mozart-oz.org/documentation/tutorial
Composable Memory Transactions - Simon Peyton Jones et al. - 2005
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/stm/stm.pd
Transactional Locking II - Dave Dice et al. - 2006
http://labs.oracle.com/scalable/pubs/DISC2006.pdf
Values and Change - Clojure's approach to Identity and State - Rich Hickey - 2009
Are We There Yet? (video) - Rich Hickey - 2009
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey
Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System - Leslie Lamport - 1978
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/time-clocks.pdf
Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of Distributed Systems - Leslie Lamport - 1985
http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~newhall/readings/snapshots.pdf
Timestamps in Message-Passing Systems That Preserve the Partial Ordering - Colin J. Fidge - 1988
http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs426/2012/lab/bib/fidge88timestamps.pdf
A Note On Distributed Computing - Jim Waldo et al. - 1994
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.7628
The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing - Peter Deutsch - 1994
https://blogs.oracle.com/jag/resource/Fallacies.html
A Gossip-Style Failure Detection Service - Robert Van Renesse et al. - 1998
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/rvr/papers/GossipFD.pdf
Paxos Made Simple - Leslie Lamport - 2001
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf
Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications - Ion Stoica et al. - 2001
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/chord:sigcomm01/
Brewer’s Conjecture and the Feasibility of Consistent, Available, Partition-Tolerant Web Services - Nancy Lynch et al. - 2002
http://lpd.epfl.ch/sgilbert/pubs/BrewersConjecture-SigAct.pdf
Push-Pull Gossiping for Information Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Communities - Mujtaba Khambatti et al. - 2003
http://khambatti.com/mujtaba/ArticlesAndPapers/pdpta03.pdf
The ϕ Accrual Failure Detector - Naohiro Hayashibara et al. - 2004
http://ddg.jaist.ac.jp/pub/HDY+04.pdf
GEMS: Gossip-Enabled Monitoring Service for Scalable Heterogeneous Distributed Systems - R Subramaniyan et al. - 2005
http://www.hcs.ufl.edu/pubs/GEMS2005.pdf
Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store - Werner Vogels et al. - 2007
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf
Convenience Over Correctness - Steve Vinoski - 2008
http://steve.vinoski.net/pdf/IEEE-Convenience_Over_Correctness.pdf
Efficient Reconciliation and Flow Control for Anti-Entropy Protocols - Robert Van Renesse et al. - 2008
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/rvr/papers/flowgossip.pdf
Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System - Avinash Lakshman et al. - 2009
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/papers/lakshman-ladis2009.pdf
Riak Distributed Database - 2012
http://basho.com/resources/white-papers/
CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed - Eric Brewer - 2012
http://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the-rules-have-changed
Event Sourcing - Martin Fowler - 2005
http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
Unshackle Your Domain - Greg Young - 2009
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/greg-young-unshackle-qcon08
CQRS - Martin Fowler - 2011
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html