vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

rystsov

// Please read the following posts to understand this code:
//   - "How Paxos works"
//     http://rystsov.info/2015/09/16/how-paxos-works.html
//   - "Read write quorums in Paxos"
//     http://rystsov.info/2015/12/30/read-write-quorums.html
//   - "Best of both worlds: Raft's joint consensus + Single Decree Paxos"
//     http://rystsov.info/2016/01/05/raft-paxos.html

// 1. Leader Election (LE)