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membership
- Jul 16, 2026 SWIM Ping-Request Probes and Why Suspicion Beats Immediate Declaration How a node delegates a probe to a third party before declaring a peer dead, and how incarnation numbers let a wrongly suspected node refute the claim without a restart. distributed systems
- Oct 28, 2025 Sessions and Ephemeral Nodes: Tying State to a Live Connection How a coordination service tracks client liveness, why ephemeral nodes vanish with the session, and what a client must do when it cannot tell whether its session survived. distributed systems
- Oct 10, 2024 Disseminating Suspicion by Gossip: Anti-Entropy, Rumor Mongering, and Merge Order How a suspicion reaches every node without a broadcast tree, why the merge rule must be a total order, and what the log factor in convergence time actually depends on. distributed systems
- Jan 19, 2023 Asymmetric Partitions and What a Set of Conflicting Suspicion Reports Means How to read a matrix of who can reach whom, why a single suspicion report cannot distinguish a dead peer from a broken path, and what a system can safely conclude from per-observer evidence. distributed systems