Introducing Generalized Consensus: An Alternate Approach to Distributed Durability
Announcing a blog series that reframes consensus as adaptable rules and goals—beyond treating Raft or Paxos as monolithic black boxes.
Generalized Consensus
A conceptual framework for consensus—durability rules, leadership changes, consistent reads, and production operations beyond monolithic Raft.
Generalized Consensus: Defining the Problem
Why consensus feels like a black box, and how reframing the problem into goals and rules can make Paxos, Raft, and successors easier to adapt.
Generalized Consensus: Setting the Requirements
From single-value Paxos to log replication: durability rules, coordinators, and the requirements every generalized consensus system must satisfy.
- Generalized Consensus: Governing Rules
- Generalized Consensus: Fulfilling Requests
- Generalized Consensus: Ordering Decisions
- Generalized Consensus: Revocation and Candidacy
- Generalized Consensus: Discovery and Propagation
- Generalized Consensus: Changing the Rules
- Generalized Consensus: Consistent Reads
- Generalized Consensus: Addenda
- Generalized Consensus: Recap