> The more nodes, the less likely any one going down harms things but the harder it is to reach consensus Flexible quorums deals with this in the usual read/wr

> The more nodes, the less likely any one going down harms things but the harder it is to reach consensus Flexible quorums deals with this in the usual read/write case. But yeah leader election then becomes the bottleneck. So if the cluster is unstable overall performance gets even worse as you scale number of nodes. https://fpaxos.github.io/ https://fpaxos.github.io/