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.It is referenced hundreds of times in many classic papers.But, here's the thing.  It doesn't exist.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.So it blows my mind that something so influential is, effectively, a myth.