I’m presenting Distributed Consensus at beCamp 2015 on October 24th, 2015 in Charlottesville, VA. It will be a 30-minute talk followed by Q&A.

We’ll cover:

• what it means for computers to agree on things (that is, consensus)
• why consensus is harder when computers aren’t right next to each other (that is, distributed)
• how to get computers to agree on things
• why it’s hard for computers to agree on things (many surprising failure modes)
• one way of getting computers to agree on things, the Raft consensus algorithm