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Distributed Consensus

Data Skeptic

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How Does Distributed Consensus Work?

Paxos and raft are so similar that you can translate optimizations and research from one algorithm to the other. This is really useful when we're trying to configure and manage distributed systems. I'm interested in distributed systems of the future where what was previously a bottleneck is now not a bottleneck or where we're working on distributed systems at a global scale.

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