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Lecture 6.1: Consensus (CST-DS)

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18:15·2020·undergraduate level

This lecture introduces the fundamental problem of consensus in distributed systems, exploring the challenges of achieving agreement among multiple nodes in the presence of failures and network latency. It lays the groundwork for understanding key algorithms like Paxos and Raft.

Accompanying lecture notes: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2122/ConcDisSys/dist-sys-notes.pdf

Full lecture series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKd45zvjcDFUEv_ohr_HdUFe97RItdiB

This video is part of an 8-lecture series on distributed systems, given as part of the undergraduate computer science course at the University of Cambridge. It is preceded by an 8-lecture course on concurrent systems for which videos are not publicly available, but slides can be found on the course web page: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2122/ConcDisSys/materials.html

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