转眼在Pyramid组两年了，历经过DFS和DTS两个项目，如今随着DTS的Alpha成功发布，也想试着对旧日知识和经验做一番梳理，写写文章。

整个系列会分成理论和实战两个方面，前者主要是对开发过程中参考的各篇paper做一番综述，后者则侧重于一些编程心得和设计上的注意点。暂时想到的题目有：
Theory
1. Consensus：讨论各种Consensus算法，以及其在选举、事务方面的应用
2. How to handle CAP：大言不惭的讨论一下分布式系统的CAP solutions，会涵盖How to build a scalable system/GFS/Map Reduce/Bigtable/Chubby等几

原文地址：

https://docs.google.com/View?id=afk7vnz54wt_12f8jzj9gw

自己看吧，同学们不要怪我懒，我花了半个小时去关键字，甚至删光了中文只剩下英文，校内还说文章有不适内容...

本来我只对

A brief history of Consensus, 2PC and Transaction Commit.

by Mark Mc Keown

http://betathoughts.blogspot.com/2007/06/brief-history-of-consensus-2pc-and.html

This is a potted history of consensus, transactions and 2PC. Reading the literature on consensus is difficult because the language changes (consensus was originally called agreement), the results come in an order that isn’t logical, and the whole framework for describing distributed alg