Day 6 of #DistributedDilemmas: Leader election creates false security
Leader election creates false security. Raft/Paxos implementations often have higher MTTR than the failures they aim to solve. Simplicity frequently beats…
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Raft/Paxos implementations often have higher MTTR than the failures they aim to solve.
Simplicity frequently beats consensus algorithms.
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