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• https://dancres.github.io/Pages/
• https://ferd.ca/a-distributed-systems-reading-list.html
• http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/distributed-systems-theory-for-the-distributed-systems-engineer/
• https://github.com/palvaro/CMPS290S-Winter16/blob/master/readings.md
• http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-distributed-systems-seminars-reading.html
• http://christophermeiklejohn.com/distributed/systems/2013/07/12/readings-in-distributed-systems.html
• http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/11/06/distributed-systems-archaeology-works-cited.html
• http://rxin.github.io/db-readings/
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/pubs.html
• http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/dsrg/papers/

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This is not intended to be comprehensive or authoritative, just free online resources I've found valuable while learning more about Erlang.

Joe Armstrong's Swedish Institute of Computer Science homepage (Wayback Machine)

https://web.archive.org/web/20070429181654/http://www.sics.se/~joe/

Similar lists

• 0xAX's list of Erlang bookmarks
• Federico Carrone, Erlang Spawned Shelter - and the corresponding site, Spawned Shelter
• Ivan Uemlianin's list of resources on various BEAM languages
• David Robakowski's curated list of awesome Erlang libraries, resources and shiny things

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• Getting into public speaking (https://james.brooks.page/blog/getting-into-public-speaking)
• So You Want To Speak At Software Conferences? (https://dylanbeattie.net/2025/12/08/so-you-want-to-speak-at-software-conferences.html)
• How to Give a Good Talk (https://blog.sigplan.org/2025/03/31/how-to-give-a-good-talk/)
• My 18 tips to deliver great presentations (https://jmmv.dev/2020/07/presentation-tips.html)
• My 18 steps to prepare a great presentation (https://jmmv.dev/2020/07/presentation-preparation.html)
• 100 Tricks to Make Better Presentations (https://github.com/ciberado/100-trucos-para-hacer-mejores-presentaciones/blob/main/README.en.md)
• A command-line based markdown presentation tool (https://github.com/visit1985/mdp)
• Giving a presentation with perfect UI/UX design (https://habr.com/en/post/471624/)
• Very Important Strangers (http://randsinrepose.com/archives/very-important-strangers/)
• Edward Tufte's site (http://www.edwardtufte.com/)

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• Peter Frisch, 2016: The Year of the Zettabyte
• Eric Elliott, The Dao of Immutability
• Chris Okasaki, Purely Functional Data Structures (PDF)
• Pat Helland, Immutability Changes Everything (Video) / Whitepaper (PDF)
• Rich Hickey, Persistent Data Structures and Managed References (Video)
• Rich Hickey, Deconstructing the Database (Video)
• Jay Kreps, The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction

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1. pg_dump is a nifty utility designed to output a series of SQL statements that describes the schema and data of your database. You can control what goes into your backup by using additional flags.
   Backup: pg_dump -h localhost -p 5432 -U postgres -d mydb > backup.sql

   Restore: psql -h localhost -p 5432 -U postgres -d mydb < backup.sql

   -h is for host.
   -p is for port.
   -U is for username.
   -d is for database.

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https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/using-cfn-protect-stacks.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/using-cfn-updating-stacks-monitor-stack.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/using-cfn-updating-stacks-direct.html
  * Describes the S3 buckets that AWS manages if you don't supply one - for all stacks we're not setting a bucket explicitly, is this happening?
  

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• https://youtu.be/nHcKOiWi-X4
• https://youtu.be/E18shi1qIHU

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Python 3.7.3, MacOS 10.14.5

>>> epoch = int(datetime.datetime.now().timestamp())
>>> epoch
1567872682
>>> gmt = time.gmtime(epoch)
>>> gmt.tm_zone
'UTC'
>>> time.strftime('%Z', gmt)

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Whitepapers

• BBN, RFC 677
• Lamport, Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
• Version vectors, Detection of Mutual Inconsistency in Distributed Systems
• Vector clocks, Timestamps in Message-Passing Systems That Preserve the Partial Ordering
• Hybrid clocks, Logical Physical Clocks and Consistent Snapshots in Globally Distributed Databases
• Interval tree clocks, Interval Tree Clocks: A Logical Clock for Dynamic Systems

Other resources

• Jon Moore, Strange Loop 2015, How to Have your Causality and Wall Clocks, Too

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Slides from the talk

Erlang

• http://zerg.erlangonxen.org
• CloudI: Bringing Erlang's Fault-Tolerance to Polyglot Development

Distributed programming

• CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed
• Wikipedia: Fallacies of Distributed Computing
• Dynamo and Riak