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Here's the raft algorithm we chatted about:

https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/1137...

And an implementation:

https://github.com/goraft/raft

Decentralised conversations :)

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Do you know who the best person we can interview about this is? Looks really interesting / important.

Raft isn't for "decentralized" exactly, because it relies on knowing the number and identities of participants (and deliberately stops being able to commit updates when the number falls below a quorum). It's "no single point of failure" but the algorithm implies a sysadmin in control.

Wow! That looks very interesting

Here is another project in the same spirit: https://register.blib.us

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