Distributed Reliability: SRE Critical State Management

Anticipating failures that will affect your companys systems is a crucial site reliability engineer duty. These failures are especially significant when they affect distributed systems which is why efficient algorithms and strategies are essential in minimizing the likelihood of failures. In this course youll explore both critical state management and the CAP theorem identifying how both concepts relate to distributed systems. Next youll examine several distributed system management algorithms and strategies including deterministic and nondeterministic algorithms distributed system models and Byzantine faults. Youll then outline how each of these benefits distributed system management. Finally youll investigate the Multi-Paxos message flow protocol and how it works with distributed systems. Finally youll describe whats involved in deploying and monitoring a consensus-based system to increase distributed system performance.