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Leader election

An introduction to leader election algorithms.

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Franco Fernando
Sep 16, 2023
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Hi Friends,

Welcome to the 38th edition of the Polymathic Engineer newsletter.

This week we will talk about a though, but important topic in Distributed System: Leader Election. I hope this won’t be too hard to digest ;-)

The outline will be as follows:

  • Introduction to the leader election problem

  • Raft algorithm

  • Paxos algorithm

The leader election problem

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