Tag
failure-models
- Jun 11, 2025 The Lease as a Time-Bounded Grant: Why Expiry Needs No Message How a lease replaces an explicit release with a deadline, why the holder must stop before the server reassigns, and what the gap between the two clocks costs. distributed systems
- Mar 26, 2025 What Three-Phase Commit Adds and What It Still Cannot Do The pre-commit phase that removes blocking under node crashes, the assumption about network partitions that it silently depends on, and why real systems rarely deploy it. distributed systems