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June 20, 2021 108 mins

We continue our discussion of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, this time focusing on multi-leader replication, while Joe is seriously tired, and Allen is on to Michael’s shenanigans.

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When One Leader Just Won’t Do

DesigningData-Intensive Applications Talking about Multi-Leader Replication

Replication Recap and Latency

  • When you’re talking about single or multi-leader replication, remember all writes go through leaders
  • If your application is read heavy, then you can add followers to increase your scalability
  • That doesn’t work well with sync writes..the more followers, the higher the latency
    • The more nodes the more likely there will be a problem with one or more
    • The upside is that your data is consistent
  • The problem is if you allow async writes, then your data can be stale. Potentially very stale (it does dial up the availability and perhaps performance)
  • You have to design your app knowing that followers will eventually catch up – “eventual consistency
    • “Eventual” is purposely vague – could be a few seconds, could be an hour. There is no guarantee.
  • Some common use cases make this particularly bad, like a user up
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