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Beyond Consensus: How to Get RFC with CURP for Low-Latency Writes get rfc with curp
In a world moving toward edge computing and global databases, those extra milliseconds add up. That is where the conversation changes from "Raft or nothing" to 4 minutes Beyond Consensus: How to Get RFC
CURP allows for writes in the happy path. Here is the secret sauce: The client sends the write to the leader AND a set of witnesses simultaneously. Want to dive deeper
Want to dive deeper? Check out the academic paper "CURP: A Protocol for Low-Latency, Strongly-Consistent Storage" or look at open-source implementations like Xline (a CURP-based etcd alternative).
If you’ve ever built a distributed system, you know the drill. You need strong consistency, so you reach for Raft or Paxos. You get safety, but you pay the price: before you can tell the client "success."