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• Exactly how does a master select backups?
• How do we make sure a master is dead (to prevent divergent views of tables)?
• How does a new master know when it has received all segments (e.g. knows it has the head of its log)?
• How does host-to-host authentication work
  • In particular, how does the application authenticate the Coordinator?

Further Things to Walkthrough in Design Meetings

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