jdean677

This will definitely expedite tech jobs moving to India. At current market rates, companies can afford to hire 3-5 engineers in India compared to 1 engineer in US with equivalent interview standards. I already see this happening with Amazon(with new hyderabad campus), Google & Uber.

Gossip protocol is useful for propagating node failures or events that are fine with being eventually consistent.

It cannot be used for leader election as these events are time sensitive and needs to be consistent across the cluster within a short duration, that is the reason we have raft & paxos.