Consensus Algorithms

Consensus algorithms

Consensus is one of the most important and fundamental problems in distributed computing. Simply put, the goal of consensus is to get several nodes to agree on something. It is a distributed computing concept that is used to provide a means of agreeing to a single version of truth by all peers on the distributed network.

July 12, 2017 · (updated February 5, 2024) · 9 min · Pradeep Loganathan