Distributed Computing @ OMSCS over – what a ride!
Last semester, I decided to enroll in the brand spanking new Georgia Tech’s Distributed Computing course offered for the first time (as part of OMSCS) thi...
Category: Distributed Computing
Distributed Computing CS7210 Distributed Computing – A course review
Distributed Computing was offered in the OMSCS program for the first time this past semester (i.e. Spring 2021) and when the course opened up for registration, ...
PAXOS made moderately complex – slots
In the paper “PAXOS made moderately complex”, the authors introduce unfamiliar concepts not mentioned in the original PAXOS paper, concepts such as ...
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 stat...
Understanding linearizability
I’m preparing for my Distributing Systems midterm and I was struggling to understand the differences between serializability and linearizability (why are ...
Distributed system snapshots: consistent vs inconsistent cuts
In “Consistent Global States of Distributed Systems: Fundamental Concepts and Mechanisms”, the authors propose capturing a distributed system’...
PAXOS (not) made simple
Leslie Lamport, a world renounced computer scientist, first published the paper “Part-time parliament” back in 1990. Unfortunately, that paper well ...
The FLP theorem: impossibility of achieving consensus within distributed systems
For this week, my distributed systems course just assigned us students a reading assignment: “Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty proce...
Why is Lamport’s Scalar Clock only consistent, not strongly consistent?
For the last couple days, I’ve been watching the distributed systems video lectures and reading the recommended papers that cover logical clocks. Even aft...
8 fallacies of distributed computing
Rotem-Gal-Oz, A. (2005). Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained. Cognitive biases (built-in patterns of thinking) and fallacies (errors in thoughts) creep...