I am starting with distributed system design and got this piece of advice from a Microsoft engineer that this should be my first step into distributed systems.
- :scroll: [Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/talks/dean-keynote-ladis2009.pdf)
- :scroll: [Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/time-clocks-ordering-events-distributed-system/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fum%2Fpeople%2Flamport%2Fpubs%2Ftime-clocks.pdf)