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Very good question. The article clearly lacks a section on that. This form of consensus is made for a different set of trade-offs than Raft or Paxos or blockcha
by gritzko 5y ago
Very good question. The article clearly lacks a section on that. This form of consensus is made for a different set of trade-offs than Raft or Paxos or blockchains. It implies a swarm of participants of an unknown size and, mainly, CRDT data structures. That subject deserves an article of its own though.
Swarm consensus does not seek quorums, it has no knowledge of the number of nodes. It assumes there is a way to connect to the "giant cluster" in a highly redundant way. On the other hand, if disconnected (blackout etc), islands of consensus can progress despite that. So it is more on the AP side, like everything CRDT.