SREcon20 Americas - Implementing Distributed Consensus

Implementing Distributed Consensus

Dan Lüdtke, Google Inc.

May I introduce "Skinny", an education-focused, distributed lock service.

With the help of Skinny, we will:

- briefly look at the Paxos protocol
- see an example of a typical Paxos run
- design a simple distributed consensus protocol
- learn the tricky parts of implementing our simple distributed consensus protocol
- gradually move from theory-level to coding-level, solving small challenges (network, availability, fault-tolerance) along the way
This talk addresses engineers who had little exposure to the inner workings of distributed consensus, who want to learn about distributed consensus as they start building distributed systems, and who worked with ready-made distributed consensus solutions such as Zookeper and etcd but strive to understand the underlying theory as well.

Disclaimer: This work is not affiliated with any company (including Google) and purely educational!