DAY 180 / 210

Safety Properties in Distributed AI Systems

This day launches the distsys-safety phase by establishing why safety invariants matter for production AI infrastructure. It equips Maku to recognize failure modes that directly affect StartupTribunal's reliability at scale. The foundation prevents downstream architectural debt in later fault-tolerance work.

⏱ 45 min target📝 2 quiz Qs

Resources

readingACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
The Byzantine Generals Problem
entire paper
30 min

Deliverable

200-word journal entry on one safety property and its link to AI engineering

Quiz · 2 questions

1. Which property is violated when a distributed system accepts two conflicting responses as valid?

LivenessSafetyAvailabilityPartition tolerance

2. Explain in one sentence why the CAP theorem is often misapplied to AI serving systems.

Journal

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Blockers

Commit / PR links (one per line)