How Your Data is Stored, or, The Laws of the Imaginary Greeks

How Your Data is Stored, or, The Laws of the Imaginary Greeks
Yonatan Zunger, Hacker Noon, Medium, 2017/05/26
I could tell you that this article describes distributed data management as defined by Leslie Lamport’s invention in The Part-Time Parliament (33 page PDF) known as the Paxos algorithm, and the master election protocol called Chubby. But it's better to say that this article is an accessible description of different ways people can keep their records up to date. More...