The more work on orchestrator, the more user input and the more production experience, the more insights I get into MySQL master recoveries. I'd like to share the complexities in correctly running general-purpose master failovers; from picking up the right candidates to finalizing the promotion. The TL;DR is: we're often unaware of just how things […]
The hashicorp/raft library is a Go library to provide consensus via Raft protocol implementation. It is the underlying library behind Hashicorp's Consul. I've had the opportunity to work with this library a couple projects, namely freno and orchestrator. Here are a few observations on working with this library: TL;DR on Raft: a group communication protocol; […]