I thought I would share a few of the topics I am reading:
Xmas Research//Distributed Systems
The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines Luiz André Barroso and Urs Hölzle 2009- s00193ed1v01y200905cac006.pdf
Lessons from Giant-Scale Services, Eric Brewer 2001
Xmas Research//Distributed Systems/untitled folder
Xmas Research//Distributed Hashtable
Xmas Research//Distributed Hashtable/Chord (peer-to-peer) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.webarchive
Xmas Research//Paxos
Xmas Research//Paxos/08-08-TA–XOpenEtc-I-1.pdf
Xmas Research//Paxos/Chubby.txt
Xmas Research//Paxos/paxos_made_live.pdf
Xmas Research//Paxos/the Paxos Commit algorithm.webarchive
Xmas Research//Search
Xmas Research//Search/block-oriented-suffixarrays.pdf
Xmas Research//Search/bloom-filter-index.pdf
Xmas Research//Search/compressed inverted.pdf
Xmas Research//Search/compressed-bwt.pdf
Xmas Research//Search/dynamic-fm.pdf
Xmas Research//Search/index-techniques.pdf
Xmas Research//Search/practical-compressed-indexes-review.pdf
Xmas Research//Search/xml-index.pdf
Xmas Research//Search/xpath-query.pdf
Inverted Indexes – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_index
(The files are up on Dropbox but I discovered you cannot create a public link to a shared folder to everyone. You need to email to share. And there was no blindingly obvious way to share a link to my public folder, which kinds of seems amazing)