This exact problem was the final challenge of last year's Stripe CTF contest. They put together a really cool test harness that would systematically probe for a

This exact problem was the final challenge of last year's Stripe CTF contest. They put together a really cool test harness that would systematically probe for any possible way that an unreliable network could cause the system to fail. In order to complete the challenge, you had to achieve a desired throughput without ever allowing the replicas to become inconsistent. Unfortunately Stripe doesn't seem to have kept the main site[1] online, but the test harness is still available on Github[2]. [1]: https://stripe-ctf.com/ https://stripe-ctf.com/ [2]: https://github.com/stripe-ctf/octopus https://github.com/stripe-ctf/octopus