Bruno Bonacci on Viewstamped Replication @PWL London

Viewstamped Replication is a protocol to replicate state and converge to a consistent view in face of non Byzantine failures. The original paper was published in 1988 and then revisited in 2012.
The original paper is harder to read as the terminology used is for distributed systems evolved over the years. The 2012 paper is much simpler to read and it touches on a number of possible optimisations over the protocol. In this talk we will be taking a look to the 2012 paper and how the protocol works and touching on the original paper as well.

[simonmassey]

this is the clearest walk-through I have come across about any strong consistency algorithm.