“Concurrency” Book is Here
Today, I am proud to announce that a book I edited titled “Concurrency: The Works of Leslie Lamport” has just been published and is available on Amazon ; Go...
Recent Posts
HotStuff: Three-Chain Rules!
Renewed interest in the Blockchain world on a long standing problem of asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) Consensus focuses on the following scaling...
Dfinty Consensus Explored
Did you ever wonder what is the BFT consensus engine that drives Dfinity, is it new or known, and how can it be improved?
“Nevertheless She Persisted” Book is Here.
I was introduced to the beauty of math by my high school Russian math teacher, Mr Gershovits. He taught us not just math, but the pleasure of grappling with ...
The BFT lens: Tendermint
This is the second post discussing:
The BFT lens: HotStuff and Casper
Today I am going to overview a new algorithmic foundation called ‘HotStuff the Linear, Optimal-Resilience, One-Message BFT Devil’ (in short, HotStuff), devel...
Fast Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance is trickier than you might think
Over a decade of improvements to the seminal PBFT work have turned out to have safety or liveness issues, as demonstrated in a recent ArXiv note we posted:
Blockchain in the Lens of BFT
In the early 2000’s, a group of activists advocating the wide-spread use of cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies were engaging over the `cypherpun...
The Greek Tragedy of Industrial Computing Research Labs
Authors: Guy Singer and Dahlia Malkhi
Flexible Paxos
Summer was buzzing with intern activity at the VMware Research Group (VRG), working with all the research team and with David Tennenhouse, Chief Research Of...