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  • Modeling Paxos Performance in Wide Area – Part 3

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    Earlier I looked at modeling paxos performance in local networks, however nowadays people (companies) use paxos and its flavors in the wide area as well. Take Google Spanner and CockroachDB as an example. I was naturally curious to expand my performance model into wide area networks as well. Since our lab worked on WAN coordination…

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  • Modeling Paxos Performance – Part 2

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    In the previous posts I started to explore node-scalability of paxos-style protocols. In this post I will look at processing overheads that I estimate with the help of a queue or a processing pipeline. I show how these overheads cap the performance and affect the latency at different cluster loads. I look at the scalability for…

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  • Paxos Performance Modeling – Part 1.5

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    This post is a quick update/conclusion to the part 1. So, does the network variations make any impact at all? In the earlier simulation I showed some small performance degradation going from 3 to 5 nodes. The reality is that for paxos, network behavior makes very little difference on scalability, and in some cases no difference at…

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