August 29, 2016 - 10-11:30am PDT
Replicating data across geographically distributed data centers is the new norm in cloud services. Compared to Classic Paxos, Fast Paxos shines more favorably, because
- replication can be initiated from arbitrary DC (and there is no need to pump data through a dedicated primary DC);
- replication can be completed in single WAN round trip.
This meetup studies Leslie Lamport's seminal paper on Fast Paxos and its TLA+ specification.
Dr. Cheng Huang is a research scientist and tech lead at Microsoft. Cheng has been with Microsoft Research for 11 years. Most recently, he joined the Azure Storage team to full-time help making the Microsoft cloud more scalable and cost effective.
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- most helpful to review Andrew Helwer's lecture on Classic Paxos
(not required, but helpful to take a quick look)