Distributed Databases

Deep End Era. Engineering with Sankalp · Oct 10, 2026 · 1h 3m

What happens when two machines disagree about the same record? Follow a database from a single reliable ledger to a system spread across many machines and regions. The episode explores replication, multiple writers, consistency and availability tradeoffs, then examines how failures expose assumptions that ordinary tests can miss. Jepsen and deterministic simulation provide two ways to interrogate those assumptions. A foundation for understanding why distributed databases behave the way they do.

Created by Sankalp Thakur. A Transient Labs production.

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