DAY 132 / 210
Foundations of Safety in Distributed Systems
This opening day of phase 4 establishes why safety properties must be designed into every distributed component before scaling AI services. It sets the mental model for later weeks that will apply these ideas to production failure modes.
⏱ 45 min target📝 2 quiz Qs
Resources
- 35 min
Deliverable
Journal entry posted to app/maku/page.tsx containing a 200-word safety checklist derived from the Paxos paper
Quiz · 2 questions
1. Which safety property does Paxos primarily guarantee that a simple rate limiter does not?
2. Name one failure mode that would violate safety even if a rate limiter returns 429s.