DAY 192 / 210
Intro to Safety in Distributed Systems
This day launches the distsys-safety phase by establishing core mental models for fault tolerance and consistency under partial failure. It sets the foundation for later weeks that apply these models to production AI engineering patterns.
⏱ 45 min target📝 2 quiz Qs
Resources
- 25 min
- 15 min
Deliverable
journal entry summarizing one safety fallacy observed in app/maku/page.tsx
Quiz · 2 questions
1. Which fallacy most directly explains why rate-limiter.ts may fail silently across nodes?
2. Name one concrete symptom of the 'network is reliable' fallacy in a multi-region AI service.