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Networks & the Internet

Peer-to-Peer: The Internet Without a Center

In a peer-to-peer network there is no central server — every node is both client and server. BitTorrent splits a file into pieces and a swarm trades them, so the more people want a file, the faster everyone gets it.

10 min read·Jul 23, 2026
Computer Science

Distributed Consensus

Why agreement across unreliable machines is genuinely hard, how quorum intersection and Raft's leader election solve it in practice, and what the FLP impossibility result and CAP actually say.

10 min read·Jul 14, 2026
Networks & the Internet

DNS: The Internet's Phone Book

Humans use names; the network routes to numbers. DNS bridges the gap with a distributed, delegated tree — no single machine holds the whole thing, and caching makes it feel instant.

10 min read·Jul 8, 2026