Loose Clustering
Explore the concept of loose clustering in distributed systems to understand how individual server instances can operate independently without specific dependencies. Learn how this approach helps build resilient system architectures that scale smoothly, tolerate failures, and avoid manual reconfiguration through leader election and runtime discovery mechanisms.
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Individual servers in loose clustering
Systems should exhibit loose clustering. In a loose cluster, the loss of an individual instance is no more significant than the fall of a single tree in a forest.
However, this implies that individual servers don’t have differentiated roles. At the very least any differentiated roles are present in more than one instance. Ideally, the service wouldn’t have any unique instance. But if it does need a ...