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eatonphiltoday at 3:34 PM1 replyview on HN

> The "fan-out" is synchronized with a classic consensus algorithm called 3PC (three-phase commit) so that a push is only accepted if a majority of the nodes acknowledge it.

Doesn't 3PC require all nodes to agree, not just a majority?


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dataplumb3rtoday at 6:48 PM

I would think so - outside this sentence the author indicates they're talking about consensus across all members.

IE - the interactive diagram and note about latency being bounded by the slowest replica