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Decentralized Patterns and Distributed Workload Management

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CS-438: Decentralized systems engineering

A decentralized system is one that works when no single party is in charge or fully trusted. This course teaches decentralized systems principles while guiding students through the engineering of their own decentralized system featuring messaging, file sha ...

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This lecture covers advanced blockchain architectures, focusing on decentralized patterns like composite addresses and network construction. It also delves into distributed workload management techniques such as throttling, rate limiting, and managing failures. The instructor discusses concepts like bulkhead, circuit breakers, and compensating transactions, along with time management strategies and monitoring techniques. The lecture concludes with a detailed overview of Scalog's architecture, highlighting its write path and the coordination between clients, servers, and the ordering layer.

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Bryan Alexander Ford

Links DEDIS lab home pagePersonal home page Curriculum vitae https://bford.info/cv.pdf Teaching & PhD PhD Students Shailesh Mishra Past EPFL PhD Students Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Kirill Nikitin, Cristina Basescu, Enis Ceyhun Alp, Simone Colombo, Pasindu Nivanthaka Tennage, Louis-Henri Manuel Jakob Merino Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector David Froelicher, Ludovic Barman, Georgia Fragkouli Courses Decentralized systems engineering CS-438 A decentralized system is one that works when n

Pierluca Borsò

Expertise Teaching & PhD Courses Decentralized systems engineering CS-438 A decentralized system is one that works when no single party is in charge or fully trusted. This course teaches decentralized systems principles while guiding students through the engineering of their own decentralized system featuring messaging, file sharing, encryption, and blockchain concepts.

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Blockchain

A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a Merkle tree, where data nodes are represented by leaves). Since each block contains information about the previous block, they effectively form a chain (compare linked list data structure), with each additional block linking to the ones before it.

Solana (blockchain platform)

Solana is a blockchain platform which uses a proof-of-stake mechanism to provide smart contract functionality. Its native cryptocurrency is SOL. Solana was launched in 2020 by Solana Labs, which was founded by Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal in 2018. The blockchain has experienced several major outages, was subjected to a hack, and a class action lawsuit was filed against the platform. Solana's total market cap was in January 2022. However, by the end of 2022, this had fallen to around $3 billion following the bankruptcy of FTX.

Circuit breaker

A circuit breaker is an electrical safety device designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by overcurrent. Its basic function is to interrupt current flow to protect equipment and to prevent the risk of fire. Unlike a fuse, which operates once and then must be replaced, a circuit breaker can be reset (either manually or automatically) to resume normal operation. Circuit breakers are made in varying sizes, from small devices that protect low-current circuits or individual household appliances, to large switchgear designed to protect high voltage circuits feeding an entire city.

Non-fungible token

A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique digital identifier that is recorded on a blockchain, and is used to certify ownership and authenticity. It cannot be copied, substituted, or subdivided. The ownership of an NFT is recorded in the blockchain and can be transferred by the owner, allowing NFTs to be sold and traded. NFTs can be created by anybody, and require few or no coding skills to create. NFTs typically contain references to s such as artworks, photos, videos, and audio.

Tron (cryptocurrency)

TRON is a decentralized, blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, proof-of-stake principles as its consensus algorithm and a cryptocurrency native to the system, known as Tronix (TRX). It was established in March 2014 by Justin Sun and since 2017 has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore, established in the same year. It is open-source software. It was originally an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token, which switched its protocol to its own blockchain in 2018.

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