Consensus & Leader Election

Consensus lets a cluster agree on one value or one leader despite failures. Learn Raft, Paxos-style quorum logic, leader election and split-brain prevention by implementing them.

18 lessons across 3 courses

Consensus & Leader Election lessons by course

Hands-On Distributed Systems Engineering in Go

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  1. Day 47: The Raft Consensus Algorithm: Overview
  2. Day 48: Implementing Leader Election
  3. Day 52: Optimizing Raft: Batching Proposals
  4. Day 53: Optimizing Raft: Log Pipelining
  5. Day 54: Raft Log Compaction and Snapshots
  6. Day 55: Lease Reads: Bypassing the Quorum
  7. Day 56: Joint Consensus and Configuration Changes
  8. Day 57: The Multi-Raft Architecture

Distributed Key Value Store : DurableKV

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  1. Day 9: Implement Tunable Read and Write Quorums (N, W, R) — and Measure Consistency Trade-offs

Hands On System Design with Distributed Systems Implementation

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  1. Lesson 4: Build a Distributed Log Storage Cluster — Replication, Quorums, and Repair

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Storage Engines & Indexing (38) Sharding & Partitioning (17) Replication (9) Distributed Transactions (7) Consistent Hashing (5) Consistency Models & CAP (4) All topics →