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Byzantine Fault Tolerance

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On July 5th 1982, Leslie Lamport (initial LaTeX developer, Microsoft Researcher and winner of the 2013 Turing Award), Robert Shostak and Marshall Pease published a paper named The Byzantine Generals' Problem. Several system architectures were designed that implement Byzantine Fault Tolerance. The Byzantine Generals' Problem.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

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Martin Sústrik : Philosophers, by and large, tend to be architecture astronauts. Programmers' insight is that architecture astronauts fail. And the sense that you have to be here or you can’t play is going to start diminishing. After all, nobody gets fired from creating a hierarchy. JavaScript benchmark.