Aleksey Charapko

My last metastable blog post discussed the interactions between systems and components and how they can lead to metastable failures. Specifically, I looked at interactions between systems/components and how signals can be misinterpreted by different systems due to ambiguity — a timeout may mean a transient fault that…

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Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?

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In our 54th reading group meeting, we were looking for an answer to an important question in the distributed systems community: “What about Raft?” We looked at the “ Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus? ” paper to try to find the answer. As always, we had an excellent presentation, this…