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How would you architect a scalable distributed consensus system for a large-scale cluster?

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  • What are the key considerations when designing a fault-tolerant consensus mechanism like Paxos or Raft?
  • How would you architect a scalable distributed consensus system for a large-scale cluster?
  • Design a consensus algorithm for ensuring data consistency across distributed systems.
  • Build a consensus algorithm for ensuring consistency in distributed databases.
  • Build a consensus algorithm for distributed systems.
  • Develop a distributed consensus algorithm for reliable data replication.
  • Design a system for managing a distributed consensus algorithm.

Interview question asked to Software Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, Technical Program Managers and other roles interviewing at Rivian, Livongo, Productboard and others: How would you architect a scalable distributed consensus system for a large-scale cluster?.