From Traditional Fault Tolerance to Blockchain
by: Wenbing Zhao
Publisher finelybook 出版社: Wiley-Scrivener; 1st edition (June 29,2021)
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 464 pages
ISBN-10: 1119681952
ISBN-13: 9781119681953
Book Description
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
