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Liberating Distributed Consensus - Heidi Howard

Reactive Summit · talk · Watch on YouTube

Distributed systems

What it is

Heidi Howard's Reactive Summit 2018 talk on generalizing Paxos by weakening its original requirements. She shows Paxos is one point on a broad spectrum of consensus approaches.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an illuminating, approachable explanation of distributed consensus.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “Heidi Howard is incredible and her work on distributed consensus is illuminating.”

    Makes distributed consensus easy to understand.

    jganetsk, 2020-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?”

  2. “Check out Heidi Howard's work for some nice generalisations and variations of Paxos.”

    Heidi Howard's generalisations of Paxos using immutable state.

    richdougherty, 2019-09 · Recommendation · in “The Paxos Algorithm, or How to Win a Turing Award”

  3. “There's a really great talk on this by Heidi Howard”

    Talk connecting CALM, monotonicity and consensus algorithms.

    j-pb, 2020-08 · Recommendation · in “Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy”

  4. “This talk helped me greatly”

    Helpful talk on Heidi Howard's consensus work.

    poooogles, 2020-10 · Recommendation · in “A Review of Consensus Protocols”

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Topics: paxos, raft, heidi howard, distributed systems, flexible paxos

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