Tyler McMullen talks through the components and design of a real system, as well as the theory behind them. The system is built to perform very high volumes of health checks, done across a cluster of machines for reliability and scalability. It includes things like gossip, failure detection, leader election, logical clocks, and consistency trade-offs.
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