The chaos of a leaderless world
The bully on the playground
Passing the crown in a ring
Modern consensus and the cloud
007skaty Google Chubby and Apache ZooKeeper coordinate leadership in distributed computer systems
007skaty ZooKeeper and Chubby Lock
Elect the leader, elect the leader / ZooKeeper builds on Chubby's design.
007skaty Connect the three nodes to master the algorithm that elects a single network leader.
007skaty Lamport used a fictional Greek island parliament story to help unreliable computer nodes agree, but engineers struggled for years to implement it.
Why did Leslie Lamport write his original Paxos paper as a story about a Greek island?
ZooKeeper name: Apache ZooKeeper got its name because coordinating wild, chaotic distributed systems felt like managing a zoo of different animals.
007skaty Raft uses leader election to power modern cloud technologies like Kubernetes.
Which modern container orchestration system uses etcd (which relies on Raft) to manage its cluster state?
A flat buoyant structure, typically made of planks or logs, used for floating on water. In 2014, computer scientists designed this namesake protocol to help distributed cloud networks elect a single leader.
What are the three possible states a node can have in the Raft consensus algorithm?