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3 articles
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 minJul 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 minJul 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 minJul 8, 2026