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Time, ordering and consistency models
What does 'at the same time' mean across two machines?
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Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System ↗Leslie Lamport, 1978
Advanced · Module 10
Distributed Systems
What happens when one computer is not enough. Every assumption you had about ordering, time and truth now needs defending.
By the end of this module
You can reason about a system where the network lies and machines vanish.
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02
Consensus: Paxos and Raft
How do machines agree when any of them may fail?
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In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Raft) ↗Ongaro & Ousterhout, 2014
03
CAP, replication and partition tolerance
What must you give up, and when?
ReadingFree
Designing Data-Intensive Applications — reference list ↗Martin Kleppmann
The free, annotated bibliography behind the standard book.
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