Ask HN: Which recent research paper blew your mind?
"Overview of SHARD: A System for Highly Available Replicated Data" it's the first paper to introduce the concept of database sharding. It was published in 1988 by the Computer Corporation of America.<p>It is referenced hundreds of times in many classic papers.<p>But, here's the thing.  <i>It doesn't exist</i>.<p>Everyone cites Sarin, DeWitt & Rosenb[e|u]rg's paper but none have ever seen it. I've emailed dozens of academics, libraries, and archives - none of them have a copy.<p>So it blows my mind that something so influential is, effectively, a myth.