Stage 4 of 7 · 9 lessons · ~2 months
Distributed systems fundamentals
What changes when data lives on many machines that fail independently: consistency models, quorums, consensus and the hashing that lets a cluster grow. This stage makes the boxes on a diagram honest.
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