The simulator visualizes a live chain of replica servers, showing how a write enters at the head, propagates step by step to the tail, and how reads are always answered by the tail alone.
Trigger writes and reads to watch them travel through the chain, then simulate a head, tail, or middle server failure to see the configuration manager repair the chain automatically.
Buttons let you send writes, issue reads, and trigger head, middle, or tail server failures to watch the chain repair itself in real time.
Chain replication's core idea, exactly one write path and one read path, is used in production systems like Microsoft Azure Storage and Apache Kafka's in-sync replica design, which borrow the same head-to-tail propagation principle.
The simulator visualizes a live chain of replica servers, showing how a write enters at the head, propagates step by step to the tail, and how reads are always answered by the tail alone.
The simulator visualizes a live chain of replica servers, showing how a write enters at the head, propagates step by step to the tail, and how reads are always answered by the tail alone.
Trigger writes and reads to watch them travel through the chain, then simulate a head, tail, or middle server failure to see the configuration manager repair the chain automatically.
Chain replication's core idea, exactly one write path and one read path, is used in production systems like Microsoft Azure Storage and Apache Kafka's in-sync replica design, which borrow the same head-to-tail propagation principle.