Fogo Epochs Held Even When Local Quorum Didn’t
While modeling on distributed systems, I usually assume that local coordination layers can stall progress. If a regional quorum fails, epoch continuity often becomes uncertain and that risk has to be absorbed somewhere in application logic.
On Fogo, I didn’t see that surface.
Even when a consensus zone failed to achieve quorum within its window, epoch progression didn’t fracture. The system simply defaulted to global consensus for that epoch and execution continuity held exactly as expected.
From a builder perspective, that changes assumptions.
I didn’t need contingency paths for zone failure and I didn’t treat local quorum as a prerequisite for epoch validity. Zones behaved like an optimization layer not a dependency layer so epoch modeling stayed deterministic.
Fogo epochs held even when local quorum didn’t and that separation between local coordination and global safety made consensus behavior far easier to reason about.
