From 02417071cdb5228a84a5b51b303feb3a2df2149f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aliaksandr Valialkin Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:10:25 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] README.md: use link to Wikipedia about broken gossip protocol instead of a link to document about Gossip protocol removal from Thanos Thanos removed non-working gossip protocol a few months ago - https://github.com/improbable-eng/thanos/issues/734 , so the link to the design document https://github.com/improbable-eng/thanos/blob/master/docs/proposals/approved/201809_gossip-removal.md became unavailable. So use a link to Wikipedia article instead. Closes https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/68 --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0665dc2e5..0124786b5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ Adhering `KISS` principle simplifies the resulting code and architecture, so it Due to `KISS` cluster version of VictoriaMetrics has no the following "features" popular in distributed computing world: -- Fragile [gossip protocols](https://github.com/improbable-eng/thanos/blob/master/docs/proposals/approved/201809_gossip-removal.md). +- Fragile [gossip protocols](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol). - Hard-to-understand-and-implement-properly [Paxos protocols](https://www.quora.com/In-distributed-systems-what-is-a-simple-explanation-of-the-Paxos-algorithm). - Complex replication schemes, which may go nuts in unforesseen edge cases. The replication is offloaded to the underlying durable replicated storage such as [persistent disks in Google Compute Engine](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/#pdspecs).