Chapter 12 — Consensus & Leader Election
Chapter of Distributed Systems Fundamentals, part of System Design.
Purpose
Raft/Paxos, split-brain prevention, fencing tokens.
[stub: consensus-and-leader-election]— fill this in. Greppable doc-debt marker.
Metadata
| Dimension | Detail |
|---|---|
| Author | Amit Singh |
| Scope | MAANG interview preparation — not production documentation |
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