Module 10

Distributed Consensus

Learn how distributed systems reach agreement: leader election, Raft consensus, quorums, and handling network partitions.

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Raft Leader Election

Leader sends heartbeats to followers, quorum ensures data commit.

The Consensus Problem

In distributed systems, nodes must agree on shared state even when some nodes fail or networks partition. This is one of the hardest problems in computer scienceโ€”and one of the most important.

Leader ElectionRaftSplit-BrainQuorums