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README.md: use link to Wikipedia about broken gossip protocol instead…
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… of a link to document about Gossip protocol removal from Thanos

Thanos removed non-working gossip protocol a few months ago - thanos-io/thanos#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 #68
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valyala committed Jun 17, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -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).
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