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The Internet has made incredible growth in the last two decades. Now we are in the era of high-speed internet networks (yeah, still growing) supported by numerous satellites those rove around the planet. But as software engineers most crucial thing to us is to have a complete understanding of inter-host communication. Let’s try to recall what we learn in engineering and understand it with real-life examples. OSI Model stands for Open System Interconnection. The reference model describes how information from one computer’s application transfers through a physical medium to the application in another computer. In 1984 OSI model was published… Read more: Introduction to OSI Model

When working in distributed environments, sometimes you need to have a guarantee that you will always pick the same node Or only one node performing a special task, regardless of the cluster topology changes. Such nodes are usually called Leaders. All nodes are configured in the same way, leader election takes place at the run time. In case of leader election failure, remaining nodes again start the leader election process and choose the new leader.In this blog article, I will try to describe what is leader election, its need, and how we can use consul for leader election. Why Use… Read more: Leader Election