Raft is so fetch: The Raft Consensus Algorithm explained through "Mean Girls"

Understanding the Raft Consensus Algorithm can be tough. In honor of "Mean Girls" day (October 3), we present Raft as explained through the movie "Mean Girls."

From this week's ADMIN Update newsletter, Artur Skura explores CockroachDB, an SQL database that is fully distributed and designed for excellent scalability https://www.admin-magazine.com/Archive/2023/76/A-Distributed-SQL-Database #CockroachDB #SQL #database #scalability #OpenSource #data #FOSS #GoogleSpanner #CockroachLabs
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At a sort of high level,

a survey of the ways we currently try to stop SQL and NoSQL Databases from being single points of failure (from #strangeloop and #cockroachlabs)

https://youtu.be/6OFeuNy39Qg

"The hows and whys of a distributed SQL database" by Alex Robinson

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