Master Slave Architecture used in databases to avoid single point of failures. Writes to master, reads from slave.
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Split-brain problem
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<aside> 💡 Distributed consensus is a way in which multiple nodes agree on a certain value.
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Eg: 2PC, 3PC, MVCC, SAGA