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39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.

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Architecture DecisionsJul 2, 202618 min read

Leader Election Is Just Consensus in Disguise — Why Bully and Ring Both Split the Brain, and What Raft Does Instead

Most engineers think a leader election "picks the best node." It doesn't — it gets every node to agree on the same node, and agreement under failure is consensus.