A brief history of Consensus, 2PC and Transaction Commit.

A brief history of Consensus, 2PC and Transaction Commit, in which Mark Mc Keown attempts to keep us all in sync with the history of consensus across processes in a distributed system.

Excellent read. Thanks Mark!

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