Balaji Arun, a PhD Student in the Systems of Software Research Group at Virginia Tech, joins us today to discuss his research of distributed systems through the paper "Taming the Contention in Consensus-based Distributed Systems."  Works Mentioned "Taming the Contention in Consensus-based Distributed Systems"  by Balaji Arun, Sebastiano Peluso, Roberto Palmieri, Giuliano Losa, and Binoy Ravindran https://www.ssrg.ece.vt.edu/papers/tdsc20-author-version.pdf "Fast Paxos" by Leslie Lamport  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00446-006-0005-x