6 docs tagged with "Consensus & replication"

CAP is the most cited and most misquoted result in distributed systems. The popular version —

Rule: agreement requires a majority, not a coordinator. Any scheme where a single node decides —

This consolidates two earlier drafts — MPC-Rust.mdx and mpc-cluster-ssd.md — which

* Network messages can be delayed, reordered, or lost.

Three TimescaleDB nodes under Patroni, fronted by two proxies with two different jobs.

VSR is a state machine replication protocol designed to keep a group of replicas consistent even when some fail. It