Consensus.md

Consensus

A fundamental problem in distributed computing is to achieve overall system reliability in the presence of a number of faulty processes. This often requires processes to agree on some data value that is needed during computation. Examples of applications of consensus include whether to commit a transaction to a database, agreeing on the identity of a leader, state machine replication, and atomic broadcasts. wiki

• Paxos (wiki)
  • http://angusmacdonald.me/writing/paxos-by-example
• Zab
  • ZooKeeper
• Raft (wiki)
  • http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft
  • https://speakerdeck.com/benbjohnson/raft-the-understandable-distributed-consensus-protocol

Simple projects

• https://github.com/ClusterLabs/booth/blob/master/docs/boothd.8.txt
• https://github.com/goraft/raft
  • http://coreos.com/docs/distributed-configuration/etcd-api/#leader-module

Other stuff

• http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lamport_1205376.cfm
• http://devo.ps/blog/2013/09/11/zookeeper-vs-doozer-vs-etcd.html
• http://thinkdistributed.io
• http://ricon.io/west2013.html

Other (interesting) projects

• http://www.serfdom.io/intro/vs-zookeeper.html
• http://ceph.com
• Cron
  • https://code.google.com/p/rcron (from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10061843/how-to-convert-linux-cron-jobs-to-the-amazon-way)