Term tag: fault tolerance

Consensus Algorithm

A consensus algorithm makes separate machines agree on one value even when some fail. Why majorities always overlap, and why agreement costs a round trip.

Distributed Computing

Distributed computing splits work across separate machines that talk only by messages. Why partial failure, not speed, is the defining problem.

Error Handling in AI Systems

Ordinary code fails by raising an exception. A model fails by returning a confident, well-formed, wrong answer that nothing catches. What to do about it.