A series of distributed systems challenges brought to you by Fly.io.

Examples:

# jepsen-io/maelstrom must be installed and `MAELSTROM_PATH` env var must be set to point to it

make run-1 # run specific challenges. see Makefile
make run-2
# ...
make run-6c

Relevant reading:

• Kyle Kingsbury: An Introduction to Distributed Systems (aphyr/distsys-class)
• Martin Fowler: Gossip Dissemination
• Wikipedia: Conflict-free replicated data type > G-Counter (Grow-only Counter)
• Wikipedia: Version vector
• Tyler Treat: Building a Distributed Log from Scratch, Part 2: Data Replication
• Wikipedia: Chord
• Wikipedia: Consistent Hashing
• Jepsen: Consistency Models
• Wikipedia: Eventual consistency

Long time fan of Jepsen and Aphyr's writing so I loved this. Maelstrom is awesome 🌀