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

Signals and Threads

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How to Claw Back Those Reliability Properties

Each packet has a sequence number attached to it. This means that if you were to receive packets forty five, and then forty seven and then forty eight, you would very quickly realize that you may have missed forty six. You can go out to a separate service and contact it and say, hey, i'm miss packet forty six. Can you fill me in? And this is a thing that we do all the time, and its actually works quite seamlessly,. Even when drops are very common, which might be the case due to a slow process ret an important thing about these kind of unreliable protocols is you might lose data because something is wrong with the network. But as any good network engineer will

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