Archive - Distributed Systems Digest

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

May 6, 2020

March 2020

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

Mar 27, 2020

February 2020

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

Feb 17, 2020

January 2020

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

Jan 6, 2020

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