For people not already into distributed systems but want to get started, I blogged my (very) short list of things to read last year [1].<p>Today I would add a fifth item to that list: &quot;Why Logical Clocks are Easy&quot;, which is one of the best explanations of causality I have seen so far [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.separateconcerns.com&#x2F;2015-07-07-four-easy-reads-distsys.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.separateconcerns.com&#x2F;2015-07-07-four-easy-reads...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;queue.acm.org&#x2F;detail.cfm?id=2917756" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;queue.acm.org&#x2F;detail.cfm?id=2917756</a>