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Re:Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virgi... by jen20 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:23AM (#25238059)
> What appears to be their own hand rolled gossip protocol (that is clearly terrible compared to raft or paxos)

Raft and Paxos are not gossip protocols - they are consensus protocols.

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Re:Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virgi... by joneholland on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:44AM (#25238208)
Fair. What I meant to say is “hand rolling a way to have consensus on a shared piece of data” by implementing it with a naive gossip system.
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