Leaderless Consensus

Balaji Arun, a PhD Student in the Systems of Software Research Group at Virginia Tech, joins us today to discuss his research of distributed systems through the paper “Taming the Contention in Consensus-based Distributed Systems.” Works Mentioned “Taming the Contention in Consensus-based Distributed Systems” by Balaji Arun, Sebastiano Peluso, Roberto Palmieri, Giuliano Losa, and Binoy Ravindran “Fast Paxos” by Leslie Lamport

Guest

Balaji Arun: I am a Researcher at Aptos Labs. I received my PhD in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech. My dissertation advisor was Professor Binoy Ravindran. My research interests are broadly in distributed systems.