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		jen20 on Nov 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Norther... > 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.

joneholland on Nov 28, 2020 [–]

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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