Gossip Protocol: The Basics and Beyond

Julian Dumitrascu

Scalability: information can be efficiently spread across large networks, any number of size.

Resilient to Failure: It's distributed, so there's no single point of failure

Speed: Information can travel across all nodes in a negligible amount of time.

A typical example of this benefits are applied in blockchain

Sofwan A. Lawal I haven't asked what "scalable" means. When you want, discuss applications of this protocol! To which scaling do you refer? I like such distribution and resilience. With this protocol, computer programs can transfer data instantly across the world?

Julian Dumitrascu

Exactly! With this protocol implemented, computers can transfer data near-instant around the world.

In terms of scalability, you can scale to near infinity with this protocol in place. AWS DynamoDB uses an implementation of this protocol to share data between nodes of near infinite size

I'll discuss more applications of this protocol in the future.