Martin Kleppmann explores how to ensure data consistency in distributed systems, especially in systems that don't have an authoritative leader. He explains how to sync data between a phone and a ...

Designing ATM networks and other distributed systems requires making smart trade-offs between consistency and availability. Seeking to help system designers make those trade-offs, a group of ...

At Amazon, the need to maintain an “always-on” transactional system was at odds with the consistency model of the RDBMS. Amazon developed its own “eventually consistent” DBMS—Dynamo—which is now ...

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi ...