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I recall several people on twitter (I follow a lot of distributed systems people / cs professors as it is part of my job to build these things) who agreed with
by SEJeff 10y ago
I recall several people on twitter (I follow a lot of distributed systems people / cs professors as it is part of my job to build these things) who agreed with Martin's analysis.
- dpark 10y agoI'll have to see if I can dig some of the responses up. It bugs me that I still don't know if this algorithm is actually safe.
- SEJeff 10y agoHonestly given Antirez's response I'm genuinely surprised no one has written a TLA+ or similar formal verification proof. Then the outcome is binary; either redlock is sound and works as expected, or it is not. Amazon's AWS Architect, James Hamilton is a big fan of this approach, as are most of the heavyweights in distributed systems: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2014/07/challenges-in-designing-at-scale-formal-methods-in-building-robust-distributed-systems/ http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2014/07/challenges-in-desig... EDIT: prefaced URL with http