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System design interview question · Distributed systems

Design leader election for a service cluster

Keep exactly one active coordinator while nodes come and go.

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Concepts this round covers

  • Raft-style terms
  • Heartbeats and timeouts
  • Split-brain prevention
  • Consensus

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