Paxos Failure Detection

Server Failure Detection with Paxos. Built as a group project for UBC's CPSC 416 (Distributed Systems).

Table of Contents

• Project Spec 🎯
• Final Report 📑
• Technology Stack 🛠️
• Prerequisites 🍪
• Setup 🔧
• Team 😁

Project Spec 🎯

For a PDF containing the project's specifications, please view project-spec.pdf.

Final Report 📑

For a detailed final report written on the project, please view final-report.pdf.

Technology Stack 🛠️

Go

Prerequisites 🍪

You should have GoLand, Go v1.18.1 and Git installed on your PC.

Setup 🔧

1. Clone the repo using:

     git clone https://github.com/sassansh/FD-Paxos.git

2. Open the project in GoLand.

3. First, start the tracing server by running:

     go run cmd/tracing-server/main.go

4. Next, start Servers 1-5 by running:

     go run cmd/server/main.go
     go run cmd/server2/main.go
     go run cmd/server3/main.go
     go run cmd/server4/main.go
     go run cmd/server5/main.go

5. Next, start the Client by running:

     go run cmd/client/main.go

6. Quit or kill one of the server processes and watch the Paxos algorithim run on the server's terminals.

7. The client should now be reporting that server as dead.

Team 😁

Sassan Shokoohi - GitHub - LinkedIn - Personal Website

Naithan Bosse

Johnny Li

Felipe Caiado

Ken Utsunomiya

Jonathan Hirsch