Caleb Woodbine

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• 📝 Leader Election in Go with a Postgres database using Kubernetes tooling

  Leader Election is an important part of building distributed and scalable web applications. Often applications may have multiple replicas and could be deployed in a number of ways. Using the principal of read-many-write-one and a concensus algorithm, application replicas are all able to coordinate for a lease to be able to perform write-sensistive tasks to avoid data duplication or conflicts. Whether writing an application as a monolith or soley a scheduler, ensuring one replica writes greatly increases reliability.

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  Jun 28, 2024