DAY 195 / 210
Foundations of Distributed Systems Safety
This opening day of phase-4 establishes the core safety invariants that underpin reliable AI engineering at scale. It sets the baseline for later weeks by connecting theoretical properties directly to production failure modes the learner will encounter in StartupTribunal.
⏱ 45 min target📝 2 quiz Qs
Resources
- 35 min
Deliverable
Commit a one-page journal entry in docs/journal/day-195-safety-foundations.md that lists three safety properties and maps each to a concrete risk in the current Maku brief-form flow.
Quiz · 2 questions
1. Which safety property is violated when two replicas return different answers to the same read after a write has been acknowledged?
2. In one sentence, explain why the CAP theorem forces an explicit trade-off when designing the rate-limiter used by the brief submission endpoint.