@navinBRuas - Project creator, lead developer, and repository maintainer.
This project includes implementations based on research and existing patterns from:
- Leslie Lamport - Vector clocks, logical clocks, and distributed consensus
- Diego Ongaro & John Ousterhout - Raft consensus algorithm
- Lamport, Shostak, & Pease - Byzantine fault tolerance algorithms
- Brewer - CAP theorem
- Vogels - Eventual consistency patterns
- Dahlia Malkhi & Gillat Bar-Yossef - Quorum-based systems
- Ring Algorithm (leader election)
- Lease-based protocols for distributed lock management
- Merkle trees for data integrity
- Gossip protocols for distributed information spreading
- Byzantine consensus algorithms
- CRDT (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type) patterns
- Raft consensus protocol
- Vector clock and logical clock implementations
This project benefited from study of:
- "Designing Distributed Systems" by Brendan Burns
- "Distributed Systems" by Maarten van Steen & Andrew S. Tanenbaum
- Academic papers on distributed consensus and Byzantine fault tolerance
- RAFT papers and talks by Diego Ongaro
- Research on eventual consistency and distributed transactions
Thanks to the broader open source community for:
- Python ecosystem and tooling
- Version control and collaboration tools
- Code quality and testing frameworks
- Documentation standards and practices
This repository was created to provide:
- Educational Value - Clear implementations for learning distributed systems concepts
- Reference Material - Production-grade code patterns and practices
- Hands-On Learning - Working examples and comprehensive tests
- Research Support - Implementations for distributed systems research and exploration
If you use this repository in your work, please cite it appropriately (see CITATION.cff).
This work is provided under the terms of the LICENSE.
Thank you for using and contributing to this distributed systems learning resource!