On: Distributed Consensus – How Shared Data Is Stored

[k2xl]

I remember reading the original Google plus post a few years back. Really great explanation for Paxos and general consensus concepts.

If you are a visual learner, a really slick animation explaining Raft distributed consensus protocol is here: http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/

[Xeoncross → k2xl]

This would have saved a lot of time for learning WebRTC, Blockchain, OAuth, HTTP2, and so many other protocol designs that don't always clearly explain race conditions or other edge cases like this animation does.