Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Paper Trail » Blog Archive » Consensus Protocols: Two-Phase Commit

Paper Trail » Blog Archive » Consensus Protocols: Two-Phase Commit: "For the next few articles here, I’m going to write about one of the most fundamental concepts in distributed computing – of equal importance to the theory and practice communities. The consensus problem is the problem of getting a set of nodes in a distributed system to agree on something – it might be a value, a course of action or a decision. Achieving consensus allows a distributed system to act as a single entity, with every individual node aware of and in agreement with the actions of the whole of the network."

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