NoSQL: A simple distributed algorithm for small idempotent information

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A simple distributed algorithm for small idempotent information

In this blog post I’m going to describe a very simple distributed algorithm that is useful in different programming scenarios. The algorithm is useful when you need to take some kind of information synchronized among a number of processes. The information can be everything as long as it is composed of a small number of bytes, and as long as it is idempotent, that is, the current value of the information does not depend on the previous value, and we can just replace an old value, with the new one.

tags:distributed systems

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