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Spent some time today deconstructing the GFS paper from 2003. 

Reviewed the challenges around tensions between consistency and performance in distributed storage systems.

It continues to surprise me how basic very large systems are when broken down into their components.

Today I watched the lecture on primary-backup replication. Reviewed the pros and cons of using a direct state transfer compared to a replicated state machine and discussed various failure modes. Went through a detailed example of VMware's Fault Tolerance (FT) mechanism, which employs deterministic replay to synchronize a primary virtual machine with its backup.

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Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy