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Distributed Computing @ OMSCS over – what a ride!

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Matt Chung

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...

Distributed Computing/Graduate School

Distributed Computing CS7210 Distributed Computing – A course review

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Matt Chung

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, ...

Distributed Computing

PAXOS made moderately complex – slots

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Matt Chung

In the paper “PAXOS made moderately complex”, the authors introduce unfamiliar concepts not mentioned in the original PAXOS paper, concepts such as ...

Distributed Computing

PAXOS – I’m coming for you!

Posted on March 15, 2021 by Matt Chung

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...

Distributed Computing

Understanding linearizability

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Matt Chung

I’m preparing for my Distributing Systems midterm and I was struggling to understand the differences between serializability and linearizability (why are ...

Computer Science/Distributed Computing

Distributed system snapshots: consistent vs inconsistent cuts

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Matt Chung

In “Consistent Global States of Distributed Systems: Fundamental Concepts and Mechanisms”, the authors propose capturing a distributed system’...

Distributed Computing

PAXOS (not) made simple

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Matt Chung

Leslie Lamport, a world renounced computer scientist, first published the paper “Part-time parliament” back in 1990. Unfortunately, that paper well ...

Computer Science/Distributed Computing

The FLP theorem: impossibility of achieving consensus within distributed systems

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Matt Chung

For this week, my distributed systems course just assigned us students a reading assignment: “Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty proce...

Computer Science/Distributed Computing/Thinking out loud

Why is Lamport’s Scalar Clock only consistent, not strongly consistent?

Posted on January 22, 2021 by Matt Chung

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...

Computer Science/Distributed Computing

8 fallacies of distributed computing

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Matt Chung

Rotem-Gal-Oz, A. (2005). Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained. Cognitive biases (built-in patterns of thinking) and fallacies (errors in thoughts) creep...

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