Distributed Systems Pattern: Write-Ahead Log
Martin Fowler
AUGUST 11, 2020
In the latest part of his collection of Patterns of Distributed Systems, Unmesh faces the problem of a server failing in the middle of a complex update. A write-ahead log first saves and replicates the data for expected update in an append-only log, so if a failure occurs, we can recover the correct state.
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