Tag: #consensus
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 8 posts
Why 3 of 5 Raft Nodes Died at Once — Reading Coinbase's May 7, 2026 Outage
On the evening of May 7, 2026, cooling units in a single data hall inside AWS us-east-1's availability zone use1-az4 failed simultaneously, and Coinbase suffered an outage in which most of its services — including tradin
2026-07-16 · 17 min read #distributed-systems#postmortem#consensus#aws#resilienceAI Scientific Research and Literature Tools 2026 - Elicit, Scite, Consensus, SciSpace, Semantic Scholar, Undermind, Perplexity, OpenAI Deep Research Deep Dive
Researchers produce more than 4 million papers per year. Humans cannot keep up. In 2026, AI tools like Elicit, Scite, Consensus, SciSpace, Semantic Scholar, Undermind, Perplexity Pro Research, OpenAI Deep Research, and G
2026-05-16 · 20 min read #ai-research#literature-review#elicit#scite#consensusRaft Consensus Complete Guide 2025: Leader Election, Log Replication, Safety, etcd/Consul in Practice
etcd, Consul, CockroachDB, and TiDB all use Raft because it is understandable. Leader Election, Log Replication, Safety Properties, Membership Change, and Snapshots — a deep dive with real-world system analysis.
2026-04-15 · 10 min read #raft#consensus#distributed-systems#leader-election#log-replicationDistributed Systems Complete Guide — Clocks, Consensus, Event Sourcing, Saga, CRDT, Failure Patterns (Season 2 Ep 12, 2025)
A distributed system looks like "several computers cooperating," but what it really is: "several computers whose clocks disagree, some of them broken, reaching agreement across a network that loses and delays messages."
2026-04-15 · 13 min read #distributed-systems#consensus#raft#paxos#lamport-clockDistributed Consensus Deep Dive — Paxos, Raft, ZAB, FLP, etcd, ZooKeeper, KRaft, BFT, CRDT (2025)
Why is it hard for a distributed system to merely "agree"? The shock of the FLP impossibility result, Lamport's Paxos and its infamous unintelligibility, how Raft changed the landscape, ZooKeeper's ZAB, the birth of KRaf
2026-04-15 · 15 min read #distributed-systems#consensus#paxos#raft#etcdThe Essential Difficulty of Distributed Systems — CAP, PACELC, Raft/Paxos, Vector Clock, Saga, Event Sourcing (2025)
CAP is not 'pick CP or AP'. PACELC, Raft leader election, Paxos's infamy, Lamport/Vector Clock, limits of 2PC and the rise of Saga, Event Sourcing/CQRS, Outbox Pattern, truth about Exactly-Once, FLP Impossibility, Google
2026-04-15 · 13 min read #distributed-systems#cap-theorem#pacelc#raft#paxosDistributed Systems Fundamentals Complete Guide 2025: Consensus Algorithms, Replication, Consistency Models, Fault Tolerance
Everything about distributed systems! CAP/PACELC theorem, consensus algorithms (Raft/Paxos), replication strategies (leader-follower/multi-leader/leaderless), consistency models (strong/eventual/causal), distributed cloc
2026-04-14 · 24 min read #distributed-systems#consensus#raft#paxos#replicationDistributed Systems Fundamentals: From CAP Theorem to Consensus Algorithms and Consistency Models
Everything about distributed systems! CAP/PACELC theorem, consensus algorithms (Raft/Paxos), consistency models (Strong/Eventual/Causal), replication (Leader-Follower/Multi-Leader/Leaderless), partitioning, distributed t
2026-03-23 · 21 min read #distributed-systems#cap-theorem#consensus#raft#paxos