Distributed consensus algorithms and logical time for cloud and multi-node systems. Covers Lamport clocks, vector clocks, FLP impossibility, Paxos (basic, multi, fast), Raft, Viewstamped Replication, Byzantine fault tolerance basics, quorum reads/writes (N/R/W), leader election, and TLA+ specificati
Distributed consensus algorithms and logical time for cloud and multi-node systems. Covers Lamport clocks, vector clocks, FLP impossibility, Paxos (basic, multi, fast), Raft, Viewstamped Replication, Byzantine fault tolerance basics, quorum reads/writes (N/R/W), leader election, and TLA+ specification style. Use when designing replicated state machines, picking a consensus protocol, reasoning abou