What Is Consensus?
Learn about distributed consensus.
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Introduction
A distributed system is a group of hosts coordinating to achieve a common goal. These hosts can be spatially separated from each other, but for the client, it is a single view of the entire system.
The following properties are considered essential to a distributed system:
Concurrent: Hosts in the distributed system execute concurrently, processing multiple operations simultaneously as other hosts require coordination.
Sequencing of operations: The core property of a distributed system is to sequence the order of events since it is ...