DAY 176 / 210

Foundations of Distributed Systems Safety

This opening day of phase-4 establishes the safety invariants that every production AI system must uphold before tackling replication or consensus. For a builder shipping StartupTribunal, these properties directly determine whether user data and tribunal records survive partial failures. The day therefore anchors the entire arc in measurable correctness rather than ad-hoc resilience.

⏱ 50 min target📝 2 quiz Qs

Resources

readingStanford University
In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm
Sections 1-3
35 min

Deliverable

One-page journal entry mapping CAP trade-offs onto the current Maku brief submission flow

Quiz · 2 questions

1. Which safety property is violated when a system returns stale tribunal records after a partition heals?

LinearizabilityEventual consistencyAvailabilityDurability

2. State one concrete way the rate-limiter in lib/rate-limiter.ts could mask a safety violation during a network partition.

Journal

Time spent (minutes)

Blockers

Commit / PR links (one per line)