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The Consensus is dedicated to software infrastructure and the people behind it, with goals such as teaching developers more about the software they rely on and helping developers evaluate software and software vendors. They are looking for contributors who are experienced programmers (8+ years working on software infrastructure teams, or 3+ years developing software infrastructure products) or graduate students who either work with or on software infrastructure. According to their pitch guide, they pay $300 per published article. To learn more, refer to this page.

Latest Articles from The Consensus

  • The Consensus Weekly, August 8, 2026 August 8, 2026

    Dear subscriber, I wrote a tour of The Consensus walking through features like gift links, topic tagging jobs (find jobs related to compilers, or distributed systems), and email alerts on new jobs, articles, and funding news we index. The blog post ended with discount codes (ESSENTIAL6MONTHS or STAN

  • Almost consensus: ABD and the edges of quorum replication August 2, 2026

    From Thomas's 1979 majority voting, to ABD's linearizable register, to Cassandra's read repair: we provide a runnable Python tour of quorum replication, and show how ABD does not solve consensus.

  • The Consensus Weekly, August 1, 2026 August 1, 2026

    The feed We track hundreds of blogs (and tens of thousands of articles) from companies, projects, and developers across the infrastructure ecosystem. Here are six interesting reads from the last week. See the complete feed at /feed.html . HTTP Message Signatures with curl by Daniel Stenberg. The inl