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> I do disagree that there are opportunities to benefit from distributed consensus there's some benefits to static stability and grey failure, but sure, whatev
by dastbe 4y ago
> I do disagree that there are opportunities to benefit from distributed consensus
there's some benefits to static stability and grey failure, but sure, whatever. the important bit is to have clear paths of aggregation and dissemination in your system.
that being said
> it doesn't matter what some server in SJC says it's hosting
it kind of does matter doesn't it? assuming that server in SJC is your forwarding proxy that does your global loadbalancing, what that server is aware of is highly relevant to what global actions you can take safely.
- tptacek 4y agoMy point is just that there isn't a consensus algorithm that needs to get run to know which of the two proposals to accept.
- injinj 4y agoIt doesn't need a raft consensus algorithm, but corrosion does converge to a consensus, doesn't it? In the OSPF example, that does needs to converge to a state that is consistent and replicated on all the routers, otherwise loops and drops will occur. I'm curious if any convergence benchmark has been done that compares raft to corrosion.