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What Is Consensus?

Learn about distributed consensus.

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 ...