What do you mean by kafka based network

[ajayt6]

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1. What did you do?
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   What do you mean by kafka based network? In actual deployment, would there be a centralized kafka for all nodes or would the kafka instances run silently on each and every node?

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[sasaxie]

The consensus of TRON adopts a three-step strategy. The first step is to adopt a Kafka-based technology system to implement a centralized consensus algorithm. The purpose of TRON is to achieve system joint debugging and functional integration.

The second step is to use Raft-based distributed consensus mechanism to realize the centralized and distributed leapfrogging. This step gradually improves the functions of network and distribution and lays the foundation for the eventual realization of a wide distribution with no logical center.

The third step is to realize the Consensus mechanism of PoS and realize the Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus based on the "Margin Mechanism + Epoch Confirmation" and the compatibility consensus between PoS and PoW.

TRON is currently open source code to achieve a consensus algorithm for the first phase of the center. The second phase of the distributed consensus algorithm is under development and testing.

[ajayt6]

Thanks for the quick response . Going through your answer.

@sasaxie Should i keep this issue open so that others can see your answer?

Is there some other place your foundation is planning for all these technical questions to be discussed (like a subreddit) or is the current plan to discuss via github issues?
Thanks