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CS262a: Reading Assignment #18
Due Tuesday, October 28th


For Tuesday, read the following two papers:
  1. Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective, Tushar Chandra, Robert Griesemer, and Joshua Redstone. Appears in Proceedings of the Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), 2007.
    Please scan through Paxos Made Simple for an introduction to Paxos -- see below.
  2. In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm, Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout. Appears in Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2014

You must also:

Submit a summary for these three papers.


Optional Readings for Paper #1

Optional Readings for Paper #2

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