Gossip Protocols, Where to Start

Gossip Protocols, Where to Start This week I started reading about Gossip Protocols, or Epidemic Protocols as they are sometimes called as well. It’s quite an interesting topic in distributed systems and as you might guess, once you start investigating, the rabbit hole goes on and on. Gossip protocols were initially used as a way to maintain consistency on databases that were replicated at several hundreds sites. From then on it was seen that the gossiping could be used to solve other problems, like calcula