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Managing critical state and consensus

Keeping critical configuration and metadata consistent and highly available using distributed consensus algorithms and careful design.

Managing critical state and consensus

Keeping critical configuration and metadata consistent and highly available using distributed consensus algorithms and careful design.

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Critical vs non-critical state

Critical state includes data whose corruption or loss would be very costly: configuration, membership, account balances, etc.

Such state often lives in strongly consistent stores or is managed by well-understood distributed systems primitives.

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