notes.md

Convention:

As a rule of thumb, values are stored as strings and converted just at the moment when they are needed to be else

Method of propagation

• each server send to all his neighbors if it is not a member of sent_ls
• what can go wrong?
  • there can be multiple versions of sent_ls propagated around
    • sol: eventually, they will all fill up
• each request contains a sent_ls, with names, seperated with commas.
  • to send a request, each server take sthe prior sent_ls and append ,{server_name}

Logging convention

• log where, and only where, writer.write is used
• always log after writing, in case we can catch a failure to write that way
• timestamp when logging, there will be a bit of a discrepency for network writes, but that's ok

Before submitting

• what other test cases can I run? talk to people