#consensus

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2026-08-13~6 min
Explaining FoundationDB's Architecture Through Compartmentalization

Compartmentalization explains FoundationDB's architecture: find the responsibilities that got coupled together, split them, and scale only the parts that can scale.

2026-02-05~8 min
Simulating Leader Election on top of FoundationDB

Can LLM-generated code be trusted for distributed systems? Only if you have the right feedback loop.

2021-01-11~9 min
Notes about ETCD

List of ressources gleaned about ETCD

2020-09-18~4 min
Diving into ETCD's linearizable reads

A code-level dive into how etcd achieves linearizable reads with the ReadIndex protocol on top of Raft, including how it enables safe follower reads.

2020-07-30~10 min
Notes about Raft's paper

List of ressources gleaned about Raft