Distributed Systems in Practice — Failures, Time, Consensus and Correctness
Every backend engineer today builds distributed systems, whether they call it…
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etcd
5 posts
The Cluster: Control Plane and Nodes
In the last lesson, the control loop was abstract: “controllers watch and…
Distributed Locks, Leases and Fencing Tokens
Let me go back to the story from Lesson 6: a scheduler that ran on several pods…
Consensus With Raft
I once watched a team spend two months building “a simple leader election” for…
Consistency Models, CAP and PACELC
Early in my career, I sat in a design review where someone said, “We’ll use…