Tag: consistency
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PAXOS – I’m coming for you!
I’m now half way through Distributed Computing course at Georgia Tech and us students are now tackling the penultimate project: building a replicated state machine using PAXOS. This project will be challenging (probably going to require 40+ hours) and it’ll put my theoretical knowledge to the test and reflect back, in a couple weeks, how…
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Understanding linearizability
I’m preparing for my Distributing Systems midterm and I was struggling to understand the differences between serializability and linearizability (why are these two words so difficult to spell right). Apparently, these two concepts are very different. To gain some clarity, I searched online and found this awesome YouTube video posted by Martin Kleppmann ; in…