Handling failures: sloppy quorum, hinted handoff, data center outages
Play this lessonThis lesson comes with an interactive animation you can break and a chapter quiz.Strict quorum would block reads and writes when replicas are down. Instead, use a sloppy quorum: pick the first W healthy servers for writes (and R for reads) on the ring, ignoring offline servers.
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