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State Machine Replication, and Why You Should Care with Doug Patti

Signals and Threads

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How Do You Disseminate the Transaction Log?

In concord, applications are structured as synchronous, deterministic state machines. And somewhere there has to be some mechanism for delivering a reliable and ordered sequence of transactions to every one who starts up. We call that sequence of transactions the transaction log. How do you make sure that in this distributed system with hundreds of processes, everything is seeing the same messages in the same order? That's like the other leg on which this whole thing stands. So how does that work in concord? Yes.

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