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### Respect content licenses
**We will only merge pull requests that contain research papers that allow digital distribution.** Papers whose copyright prohibits redistribution will not be accepted; for example [license 1](http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright-policy-v1) from the [ACM digital library](http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy).
* **We will only merge pull requests that contain research papers that allow digital distribution.** Papers whose copyright prohibits redistribution will not be accepted; for example [license 1](http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright-policy-v1) from the [ACM digital library](http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy).
* We encourage papers that do not allow digital distribution to be added to a README in the appropriate subject's folder. For example, [the distributed systems README](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/distributed_systems/README.md).
* [Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/srikanth/netdb11/netdb11papers/netdb11-final12.pdf)
* [Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters](http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/cps399.28/current/papers/sigmod07-YangDasdanEtAl-map_reduce_merge.pdf)
* [MillWheel: Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/41378.pdf)
* [Sinfonia: A New Paradigm for Building Scalable Distributed Systems](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/aguilera/sinfonia-aguilera-sosp2007.pdf)
* [Towards a Next Generation Data Center Architecture: Scalability and Commoditization](http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79348/presto27-greenberg.pdf)
* [Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs](http://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/backus_turingaward_lecture.pdf)
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