fault-tolerance - Concepts

Explore concepts tagged with "fault-tolerance"

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Concepts

Byzantine Generals Problem - A fundamental problem in distributed computing about achieving consensus among distributed components when some may be faulty or malicious, named after a metaphor involving generals coordinating an attack.
Idempotency - A property where an operation can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application.
Data Redundancy - The practice of storing multiple copies of data to protect against loss from hardware failures, corruption, or disasters.
Redundancy - The inclusion of extra components beyond the minimum necessary, serving as backups to maintain system function when primary components fail.