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Liberating Distributed Consensus - Heidi Howard
Heidi Howard's Reactive Summit 2018 talk on generalizing Paxos by weakening its original requirements. She shows Paxos is one point on a broad spectrum of consensus approaches.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an illuminating, approachable explanation of distributed consensus.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Reactive Summit
- Topic
- distributed consensus
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2020
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From the original HN conversations
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Heidi Howard is incredible and her work on distributed consensus is illuminating. I think she has actually successfully cracked the cookie of "making consensus easy". [VIDEO]
jganetsk on Hacker News · 2020-04
In Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?Check out Heidi Howard's work for some nice generalisations and variations of Paxos. Her approach using immutable state makes things more tractable. [LINK] [VIDEO]
richdougherty on Hacker News · 2019-09
In The Paxos Algorithm, or How to Win a Turing AwardTbh I think you got it backwards. CALM is actually very much about eventual consistency. The gist is basically, that distributed systems are only eventually consistent iff they are logically monotonic. Coordination as used in this article basically means "needs to be decided by an …
j-pb on Hacker News · 2020-08
In Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy
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