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A decentralized peer-to-peer communication protocol where nodes periodically exchange state and liveness information with randomly chosen peers, achieving eventual cluster-wide agreement in O(log N) rounds.

STAFF ENGINEER TAKEAWAY: Gossip protocols have no central master or coordinator, making them practically indestructible under massive server churn or random network partitions.
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