Software I am Excited About

11 Oct 2013 by Roman Heinrich

Chubby is Google's least-appreciated secret sauce. But Paxos is super confusing.

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Well... NOW you have Raft!

Code + Examples of Real Life implementations

• https://github.com/goraft/raft
• https://github.com/goraft/raftd
• https://github.com/coreos/etcd
• https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns

Slides/Papers

• https://speakerdeck.com/tsantero/consensus-raft-and-rafter
• https://speakerdeck.com/benbjohnson/raft-the-understandable-distributed-consensus-protocol
• https://speakerdeck.com/vanstee/consensus-an-introduction-to-raft
• https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/11370504/raft.pdf

Other things Brad is excited about:

• Fast, cheap, reliable VMs
• Good machine + cluster management system
• a good programming language (efficient + expressive + readable + safe + fun)
• a good lock server

Cheap Machines

• LXC/OpenVZ

Cluster Management

• Docker/Juju

Good Programming Languages

• Golang

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