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 - [Stripe’s payments APIs - The first 10 years](https://stripe.com/blog/payment-api-design)
 - [Real time messaging at Slack](https://slack.engineering/real-time-messaging/)
 
+## Must-Read Distributed Systems Papers
+- [Paxos: The Part-Time Parliament](https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-paxos.pdf)
+- [MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters](https://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf)
+- [The Google File System](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf)
+- [Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store](https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf)
+- [Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing](https://notes.stephenholiday.com/Kafka.pdf)
+- [Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf)
+- [Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf)
+- [ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems](https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix10/tech/full_papers/Hunt.pdf)
+- [The Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM-Tree)](https://www.cs.umb.edu/~poneil/lsmtree.pdf)
+- [The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/chubby-osdi06.pdf)
+
 ## Books
 - [Designing Data-Intensive Applications](https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable/dp/B08VL1BLHB/)
 - [System Design Interview – An insider's guide](https://www.amazon.com/System-Design-Interview-insiders-Second/dp/B08CMF2CQF/)