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Re:Stellar Consensus Protocol and Federated Byzantine Agreement on Saturday December 15, 2018 @04:36PM (#18690469)
Here is a summary of the stellar consensus whitepaper http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-stellar-consens...
Re:Lobste.rs on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @06:06PM (#17872493)
https://lobste.rs

Lobsters is a nice community to follow. It has interesting content for software engineers open to learning new things.

Here is a nice summary of the Tango paper. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2014/09/paper-summary-tango...
I wonder if they could have used git differently to prevent git from becoming a bottleneck.

Instead of the landing strip approach, why can't they be OK with deploying configs from a snapshot of git from slightly in the past?