Distributed Systems Digest | Dean Eigenmann | Substack

A look at the Two Generals' and Byzantine Generals' problem, two popular consensus problems.

A look at consensus, asynchronous algorithms and the consensus problem.

Mar 27, 2020

On consistency, availability and partition tolerance and why we can’t build distributed systems that satisfy all these properties.

Feb 17, 2020

A look at the notion of time in a distributed system, and its effects on ordering.

Jan 6, 2020

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