It's a layer under the "it's a bidirectional stream" abstraction. Having had to debug gnarly TCP problems before (generally with semi-"intelligent" load balance

It's a layer under the "it's a bidirectional stream" abstraction. Having had to debug gnarly TCP problems before (generally with semi-"intelligent" load balancers), the two-node consensus concept is good to keep in mind. Right now the "two-node consensus algorithm" idea has got me thinking more about some of the nasty problems I've debugged and how to look at them through that lens, especially considering partial partition tolerance. "Under what circumstances can the TCP state machine on either end lose consensus, and how will/won't it recover?"