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10. Gossip Protocol
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Let's learn about gossip protocol and its usage.

Background

In a large distributed environment where we do not have any central node that keeps track of all nodes to know if a node is down or not, how does a node know every other node's current state? The simplest way to do this is to have every node maintain a heartbeat with every other node. Then, when a node goes down, it will stop sending out heartbeats, and everyone else will find out immediately

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