michaelangerman

interesting...

nice explanation

One of the most important reason's why the future of electronic currency is so interesting.

Some new database technologies released this year on Github are starting to explore new ideas along these lines including

https://github.com/attic-labs/noms

Which is using the concept of Prolly Trees

https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/doc/intro.md#...

Which are Probabilistic B-Trees...

I am 55 and have been programming computers since 1975 when I was 15 years old. Do the math, I have been programming now for 40 years. Recently, I had a conversation with someone else about this topic and I told them that I have never been so excited about my career, the field of computer science, and most importantly the opportunities that exist today in the field of technology. The excitement surrounding too many topics to list is amazing. I only hope and wish that I am able to stay healthy and continue programming to the day I die.

This is great news !

The Raft implementation inside the Etcd codebase is probably one of the core (no pun intended) implementations available.

The fact that it is written in Go gives developers the ability to have a rock solid consensus algorithm in place across multiple processors.

Not since Paxos, has such a clean algorithm been written that solves this mission critical (difficult) problem in the cloud world we live in today.

For those not familiar with Paxos, here is a reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_%28computer_science%29

Raft is a much simpler, easier to use and maintain algorithm.

And with the Etcd implementation it bootstraps one to have a clean well maintained version.

For those interested in Raft they can check out the website with more details...

https://raftconsensus.github.io/

Here is a PDF version of the paper on Raft:

http://ramcloud.stanford.edu/raft.pdf

And here is a PDF version of Diego Ongaro's PhD Thesis:

https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/~ongaro/thesis.pdf

Thanks,

Michael Angerman

Corvallis, Oregon

I guess I just don't understand why Vinod would risk his reputation and his historical legacy on this issue. It seems to me that he and everyone else on the planet would want to go down in history as a "good guy". Especially because he has the opportunity with so much money to just do the right thing. The concept that is most sad to me is how an individual can not see past their own nose, and not think about all of the other people, in this case surfers who would get so much enjoyment out of this access. The cool thing about life is we continue to learn from others mistakes. Clearly, we can all learn that in life the most important thing to do is always think about others and not about yourself first.