Re:Distributed Systems Programming Has Stalled
by rbjorklin on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:36PM
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Would you mind sharing some more specific information/references to Lamport’s work?
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Re:Distributed Systems Programming Has Stalled
by vitus on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:44PM
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The three big papers: clocks [0], Paxos [1], Byzantine generals [2].
[0] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf
[1] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-paxos.pdf
[2] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/byz.pdf
Or, if you prefer wiki articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault
I don't know that I would call it "solved", but he certainly contributed a huge amount to the field.
Re:Distributed Systems Programming Has Stalled
by madhadron on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:53PM
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Lamport's website has his collected works. The paper to start with is "Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system." Read it closely all the way to the end. Everyone seems to miss the last couple sections for some reason.