Distributed System Pattern: Leader and Followers in .NET - One Decision Maker, Many Replicas, Fewer Outages

Distributed System Pattern: Leader and Followers in .NET – One Decision Maker, Many Replicas, Fewer Outages

Distributed systems rarely fail because you picked the wrong cloud service. They fail because two nodes believe they are in charge, both act, and both are “correct” from their own perspective. If your domain has any single authority assumption, and most systems do, you need a way to make that authority real. Leader and Followers is the pattern that turns …

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Patterns of Distributed Systems: A New Series for People Who Ship Real Systems

Patterns of Distributed Systems in C# and .NET: A New Series for People Who Ship Real Systems

Distributed systems do not fail because you missed a feature. They fail because responsibility is unclear. Two nodes act, both think they are right, and your data becomes a debate. This series is my pushback against cargo cult architecture. We are going to talk about the small, repeatable techniques that stop outages, not the buzzwords that decorate slides. Unmesh Joshi’s …

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