Consensus algorithms and Node.js. Are they even related?

We are going to take an exciting journey through the cruel world of distributed systems to learn more about the technical challenges that live there. Then, with the newly gathered knowledge, we will be able to understand the problem behind consensus algorithms. Of course, we will learn the necessary terminology on the way.

Finally, scared by some popular consensus algorithms, we are going to discuss an educational project and what it takes to build a fast linearizable key/value store in Node.js.

The talk should be helpful for any Node.js developer, independent of the experience.