The Verification of a Distributed System

Leslie Lamport, known for his seminal work in distributed systems, famously said, "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable." Given this bleak outlook and the large set of possible failures, how do you even begin to verify and validate that the distributed systems you build are doing the right thing?

# Distributed systems and fault tolerance # Computer Science # Formal Methods in Verification # Logic, programming, and type systems

Caitie McCaffrey (2015). "The Verification of a Distributed System". Queue. https://doi.org/10.1145/2857274.2889274