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Distributed Systems + Frontier Safety/Interp · Week 19 · Day 2/7
DAY 128 / 210

Foundations of Distributed Systems Safety

This first day establishes core safety invariants before any implementation work. It sets the mental model for why rate limiting, API boundaries, and state consistency matter in production AI services.

50 min target📝 3 quiz Qs

Resources

Deliverable

journal entry (1 page) mapping one safety property to the current Maku brief flow

Quiz · 3 questions

1. Which property is violated first when a rate limiter is absent under burst traffic?

2. Name one concrete failure mode that a simple in-memory rate limiter cannot survive.

3. How might the current /api/maku/brief route interact with safety invariants once the system is distributed?

Journal