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Byzantine Fault Tolerance

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In distributed computer systems, Byzantine Fault Tolerance is a characteristic of a system that tolerates the class of failures known as the Byzantine Generals' Problem ; for which there is an unsolvability proof. The Byzantine Generals' Problem. What is Byzantine Failure? Bitcoin.

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Engineering dependability and fault tolerance in a distributed system

High Scalability

In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. Fault-tolerance techniques can be used to improve both availability and reliability.

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Back-to-Basic Weekend Reading: Byzantine Generals

All Things Distributed

He decided the best way to attract attention to a particular distributed systems problem was to present it in terms of a story; hence, the Byzantine Generals. Abstractly, the problem can be described in terms of a group of generals of the Byzantine army, who camped with their troops around an enemy city. Green, Karl N. Levitt, P.