Xusheng's Thoughts

About ballots in Paxos

Why does Paxos need majority acceptance of a value with the same ballot?

5 min read · June 15, 2022

2022 · consistency · thoughts
On the Usage of Atomic Clocks in Spanner

Spanner uses Atomic Clocks for read-only transactions.

8 min read · April 1, 2022

2022 · consistency distributed-database · thoughts
2PL vs Strict Serializability

2PL ensures "strict" serializability, with assumptions

2 min read · March 10, 2022

2022 · consistency distributed-database · thoughts