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Distributed Systems · 1st Edition · September 2025
Consensus In Practice
Raft, Paxos, and the systems engineers ship at 2am
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Most consensus material is either toy implementations or the original papers. This book sits in between: enough theory to debug your replica lag, enough code to ship a working leader election, enough operational war stories to know what to expect from etcd, Consul, or your own RSM. Includes a from-scratch Raft implementation in 600 lines of Go.
Author
Mateo Eriksson
Database Internals Engineer
Mateo writes the manuals that DBAs trade between teams like contraband. He worked on Postgres internals and now ships the books he could not find when learning.
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Specifications
- Pages
- 322
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Language
- English
- Level
- advanced
- ISBN
- 978-1-99999-012-8
- Published
- September 2025
Editorial review
Reviewed by three working engineers at peer publications before publication. We do not publish first drafts.
Table of contents
What you'll find inside.
- 01Why Consensus Is Hard
- 02Paxos, Slowly
- 03Raft From Scratch
- 04Log Replication In Production
- 05Membership Changes
- 06Snapshots and Compaction
- 07Operating etcd, Consul, Zookeeper
- 08CRDTs as the Other Option
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