Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Single Leader Replication

We dive back into Designing Data-Intensive Applications to learn more about replication while Michael thinks cluster is a three syllable word, Allen doesn’t understand how we roll, and Joe isn’t even paying attention.

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In this episode, we are discussing Data Replication, from chapter 5 of “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”.

Replication in Distributed Systems

• When we talk about replication, we are talking about keeping copies of the same data on