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quorums
- Feb 10, 2026 Why Majority Quorums Intersect and What the Intersection Buys The arithmetic of quorum overlap, why read and write sets must share a node, and what asymmetric quorum sizes cost in latency, durability, and fault tolerance. distributed systems
- Mar 26, 2025 Why Byzantine Fault Tolerance Costs a Third of the Cluster The 3f+1 bound, where it comes from, and how quorum sizes must change when a faulty node can lie rather than merely stop. distributed systems
- Aug 22, 2024 Paxos Prepare and Accept: What the Promises Are For Why acceptors must promise not to accept older proposals, how the highest-numbered proposal wins a phase, and what breaks when the two phases are collapsed. distributed systems
- Aug 16, 2024 Membership Change Under Joint Consensus Why a configuration cannot be edited in place, how C_old,new requires dual majorities during the transition, and what single-server changes cost in safety margin. distributed systems