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Distributed Consensus
Data Skeptic
How Fast Flexible Paxos Is a Distributed Algorithm?
Fast flexible Paxos is an algorithm that solves consensus without using a leader. It allows any of the servers to basically propose values to be decided without rooting them all via a centralized leader. This is a really powerful way of designing algorithms, particularly if you want to operate them across data centers on a global scale. I think it's important to understand at least at a high level what's going on because ultimately when failures occur, we need to know whether the system should be available or not.
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