What Is Consensus?
Understand how distributed systems coordinate through consensus mechanisms to agree on decisions despite unreliable networks. Learn about leader election, quorum roles, and replicated state machines that ensure reliability and fault tolerance in concurrent environments.
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Introduction
A distributed system is a group of hosts coordinating to achieve a common goal. These hosts can be spatially separated from each other, but for the client, it is a single view of the entire system.
The following properties are considered essential to a distributed system:
Concurrent: Hosts in the distributed system execute concurrently, processing multiple operations simultaneously as other hosts require coordination.
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