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Re:Haret: A strongly consistent distributed coordination sys... by notacoward on Saturday May 20, 2017 @11:42AM (#14382886)
Nice to see View Stamped Replication getting some love, to balance out all the Raft mania. Having such an essential core service implemented in a low-dependency non-GC runtime is good too.
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Re:Haret: A strongly consistent distributed coordination sys... by drkp on Saturday May 20, 2017 @06:52PM (#14384793)
Yes, Viewstamped Replication is underappreciated! It is actually older than Paxos, although the original paper is pretty incomprehensible too.

The more recent "Viewstamped Replication Revisited" paper is probably my favorite introduction to consensus protocols and their use in a real system: http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr-revisited.pdf

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