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Lamport's family of consensus algorithms; correct and influential, but famously hard to follow. Defined in the Distributed Systems entry of the archive.

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CAP TheoremConsensusEventual ConsistencyIdempotencyLinearizabilityPartitionQuorumRaftReplicationTwo-Phase Commit