tag: consensus
articles: 2 · beats: 1
latest: August 7, 2026
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Consensus
2 Crashtech articles on Consensus, filed under System Design, published in August 2026. Every piece is full-text HTML with sources, structured data and an authored FAQ.
All 2 sit in the System Design beat. System Design
Why Raft Consensus Prevents Split-Brain
Raft ensures only one partition can reach quorum, making split-brain impossible. Writes commit to majorities. Powers etcd and CockroachDB.
Why Raft Won: Consensus Built for Humans
Paxos is correct but hard to understand; Raft made consensus explicit. Same guarantees, different adoption. Why comprehensibility matters in algorithms.
Questions we answer about Consensus
- What is split-brain and why is it dangerous?
- How does active-passive failover fail?
- How does Raft prevent split-brain?
- What are terms and election timeouts in Raft?
- When does a write commit in Raft?
- Is Raft actually simpler than Paxos, or just a repackaging?
- Does Raft have any performance disadvantage compared to Paxos?
- Why did Chubby (Google) stick with Paxos instead of switching to Raft?
- Can you run Paxos correctly without understanding the paper?
- If Raft just makes the implementation easier, why does it matter for the algorithm itself?
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What does Crashtech publish about Consensus?
2 articles tagged Consensus, the most recent published August 7, 2026. All 2 sit in the System Design beat. Each carries numbered sources, an authored FAQ and full structured data.
What questions about Consensus does Crashtech answer directly?
10 questions have a dedicated answer page under this tag, including “What is split-brain and why is it dangerous?”. Each answer is authored prose from the article it belongs to, not a generated summary.
Can AI assistants read Crashtech's Consensus coverage?
Yes. Crashtech serves full static HTML to every crawler, allows all major AI user agents in robots.txt, and publishes an llms.txt manifest plus a full-text corpus, so assistants can retrieve and cite these articles directly.