Spanner's implementation of Paxos is actually closer to Raft than the Paxos papers. Whoah.
@ReinH @aphyr @wattersjames Raft feels like the "Ethernet" of consensus protocols (i.e. random timeouts as a simplifying concept)
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@bascule@aphyr@wattersjames It's a form of "eventually perfect failure detection" http://pine.cs.yale.edu/pinewiki/FailureDetectors … -
@ReinH@bascule@aphyr@wattersjames "elegant" "nice" "feels" "stronger" "easier to understand" Less words more numbers. Measurable==Science -
@bascule@thoward37@aphyr@wattersjames Only for sufficiently small values of 2
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@bascule@aphyr@wattersjames The timeouts specifically are a nice example of the ability of emergent behavior to manage complexity.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@bascule@aphyr@wattersjames stronger coherency is another example.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@bascule@aphyr@wattersjames Raft does a lot of nice things to minimize requisite variety, making the overall system easier to understand.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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