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Wow, nice move. I suggest anyone who considers themselves to be serious about distributed systems or operating systems take advantage of this opportunity. Lesli
by ChuckMcM 7y ago
Wow, nice move. I suggest anyone who considers themselves to be serious about distributed systems or operating systems take advantage of this opportunity. Leslie was hugely impactful on my early career at Sun where I ended up being the "ONC/RPC architect." One of the people who whose work I admired was Andy Birrell (who many will agree "invented" of RPC). It felt that every time I reached out to Andy on a problem that seemed complex and untenable, he would point me at one of Leslie's papers.
- rumanator 7y agoOh, and he is the same Leslie Lamport who brought us LaTeX.
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- patrec 7y agoNobody is perfect.
- threatofrain 7y agoAnd the one who created TLA+, a language for describing concurrent computations. http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/videos.html http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/videos.html
- state_less 7y agoI like how he formalized future state into propositional logic so you could reason about a system across time.
- zerr 7y agoI'll wait for its "Made Simple" variant :)
- bandwitch 7y agoThe book is not hard to read. Each chapter is written independently and hence the chapters can also be read independently. Each chapter presents in an accessible manner some ideas taken from a couple of Lamport's seminal papers. In this sense, I believe reading Paxos from this book (chapter "Chapter 4 State Machine Replication with Benign Failures") would be much easier than reading Lamport's "Paxos Made Simple" paper. Actually, chapter 4 is a great read even if you know Paxos.
- CalChris 7y agoBruce Jay Nelson along with Andy Birrell.
- pmcjones 7y agoAndy => Andrew
- chapium 7y agoThis will fit in right next to Distributed Systems on my shelf.