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A Brief History of Chain Replication

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Christopher Meiklejohn talks through a history of chain replication, starting with the original work from 2004 by van Renesse and Schneider. He looks at the various systems built using chain replication: Hibari, FAWN-KV, and CRAQ and explores safer designs of chain replication, such as the elastic replication work in 2013, and finally looks at new and unique designs of chain replication.

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Christopher Meiklejohn is a Senior Software Engineer with Machine Zone, Inc. working on distributed systems. In his spare time, Christopher develops a programming language for distributed computation, called Lasp.

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Mar 13, 2016

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