[From Medium] Distributed Systems II: Leaderless and P2P Systems

By Govind Mohan and Sajeed Syed Bakht Note from Gov: this is a 2 part article I wrote with a friend on Medium in 2020 In our previous article on distributed systems, we explored the leader-follower paradigm where write requests are handled by a leader and database state updates are subsequently propagated to followers, which handle reads. We saw a drawback of these systems in that they are more…