Turing Award Winner On Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport

I interviewed Leslie Lamport, a Turing Award winner known for his contributions to distributed systems and the inventor of the Paxos algorithm. We walked through the major contributions of his career for the stories behind them and what he learned along the way.

🔸 My keyboard project: read.compose.llc/p/our-keyboard-design-reveal

𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀:
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• Transcript: developing.dev/p/turing-award-winner-on-workin…

𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀:

• Bakery Problem Paper: lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/bakery.pdf
• Time Clocks Paper (most cited): lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf
• The Byzantine Generals Problem Paper: lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/byz.pdf
• The Paxos Algorithm Paper: lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-paxos.pdf

𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘀:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:25 - The Bakery Algorithm
00:08:28 - Experiences with Dijkstra
00:14:44 - His most cited paper
00:23:26 - The "Byzantine Generals" problem
00:38:05 - The Paxos Algorithm
00:46:57 - Paxos vs Raft Algorithm
00:51:26 - Building LaTeX
00:54:45 - Why writing improves your thinking
01:00:21 - Why he wasn't an academic
01:02:08 - Grand theory of concurrency
01:07:25 - Why he doesn't think he's smart
01:09:07 - Advice for his younger self
01:09:44 - Outro

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• His works: lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html

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