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
If you are building a system where every microsecond counts—think financial trading, real-time gaming, or global metadata stores—it is time to get rfc with curp
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. In a world moving toward edge computing and
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." If you’ve ever built a distributed system, you
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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).
