There are some obvious big picture issues that stand between us and useful quantum computing. Issues like whether we can make ...

Abstract: This paper extends the Paxos consensus algorithm by introducing preemptive priority scheduling with support for multiple proposal priorities, alongside an aging-based promotion mechanism to ...

Consensus is one of the fundamental problems in distributed systems: how do a group of independent, unreliable nodes agree on a single value? This challenge arises in many systems—databases, ...

Vibhas is a Software Development Manager at Amazon with over 12 years of industry experience in large scale distributed systems, databases and cloud native applications. Vibhas is a Software ...

FoundationDB is an open-source transactional key-value store created more than 10 years ago. It is one of the first systems to combine the flexibility and scalability of NoSQL architectures with the ...

Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines. Leslie Lamport may not be a household name, but he’s behind a few of them for ...