From Traditional Fault Tolerance to Blockchain

This book covers the most essential techniques for designing and building dependable distributed systems, from traditional fault tolerance to the blockchain technology. Topics include checkpointing and logging, recovery-orientated computing, replication, distributed consensus, Byzantine fault tolera...

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Main Author: Zhao, Wenbing
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark John Wiley & Sons 2021
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Wiley-Scrivener
Wiley-Blackwell
John Wiley & Sons (US)
Edition:1
Subjects:
Computer security
Electronic data processing-Distributed processing
General Engineering & Project Administration
General References
Information resources
Security measures
ISBN:1119681952, 9781119681953
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Summary:This book covers the most essential techniques for designing and building dependable distributed systems, from traditional fault tolerance to the blockchain technology. Topics include checkpointing and logging, recovery-orientated computing, replication, distributed consensus, Byzantine fault tolerance, as well as blockchain. This book intentionally includes traditional fault tolerance techniques so that readers can appreciate better the huge benefits brought by the blockchain technology and why it has been touted as a disruptive technology, some even regard it at the same level of the Internet. This book also expresses a grave concern on using traditional consensus algorithms in blockchain because with the limited scalability of such algorithms, the primary benefits of using blockchain in the first place, such as decentralization and immutability, could be easily lost under cyberattacks.
ISBN:1119681952
9781119681953
DOI:10.1002/9781119682127