When is causal broadcast not enough for causal memory?

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There’s a classic tradeoff between safety and liveness in the context of replicated data systems, originally proposed by Eric Brewer and later made precise by Seth Gilbert and Nancy Lynch. The idea is that, in a networked system of servers that is vulnerable to partitions (that is, where messages betweeen servers can be arbitrarily delayed,...

August 18, 2023 August 18, 2023

My research group was busy this past year. Here’s a summary of what we’ve been up to in 2022-2023!