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Cluster nodes are p2p, nodes can be added and removed at runtime.

The potential of firing traffic at the wrong nodes and having it dropped on the floor is a real red flag for me.

Does this function return data point that it creates itself, or does it retrieve these nodes from somewhere else?

Plus you still need a server to do the signaling to coordinate consensus across all the nodes.

As concentration in one area becomes a concern, those nodes can be identified as Amazon based on IP so clients know not to use more than 1 or 2 nodes there.

Anonymous, fault tolerant, ephemeral nodes hosting web services that can't be cracked or spied on.

However to suggest actions or further diagnostic tests you will need decision and utility nodes.

You certainly don't want someone from the outside altering the nodes directly if you have an API which should be used instead.

A gpg-signing mechanism was later put into place, so that nodes peering with each other could establish a chain of trust by themselves.

Amazon is keeping DynamoDB Available, you don't have to manage an etcd cluster), and great scaling potential (vs tuning and scaling individual HAProxy nodes).

We're working towards a platform which can collect data from millions of nodes on a daily basis and perform advanced analytics on petabytes of data.

Achieving consensus using browsers as nodes is unpractical for many reasons.

"Active Nodes" are just the number of nodes linked to the Stats program, so that number doesn't mean much.

Thanks for the correction, I'm not sure why I decided to upper case the R:) To clarify what I think you meant to refer me to, the Tor client actually chooses the three nodes in the path of a circuit, doesn't use two nodes on the same subnet, nor ones the network classifies as belonging to the same "family" (although I'm having trouble determining what this means in practice).