consensus

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Paper: Consensus Protocols: Paxos

Update: Barbara Liskov’s Turing Award, and Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Henry Robinson has created an excellent series of articles on consensus protocols. We already covered his 2 Phase Commit article and he also has a 3 Phase Commit article showing how to handle 2PC under single node failures. But that

Paper

Paper: Consensus Protocols: Two-Phase Commit

Henry Robinson has created an excellent series of articles on consensus protocols. Henry starts with a very useful discussion of what all this talk about consensus really means: The consensus problem is the problem of getting a set of nodes in a distributed system to agree on something - it