Distributed Consensus
Data Skeptic
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Introduction
This is data-sceptic consensus, a tent installment in our series about how multi-agent systems achieve collective decision making. Today on the show, I speak to Heidi Howard about Paxos, a class of algorithms designed to help a network of machines replicate a shared state - also known as distributed consensus. If you want your system to scale, it needs to be a distributed system spanning multiple computers and therefore able to handle a cornucopia of failures.
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