Distributed Replication : Multi-Leader Replication (part 3)

Ritesh Dalvi
6 min readApr 17, 2022

Replication can be achieved in 3 ways; Single leader replication, Multi-Leader Replication and LeaderLess Replication. In this article, we will be focusing on Multi-Leader replication.

We looked at Single-leader replication and the major downside of single leader replication is that all writes have to go through one leader:

https://riteshdalvi.medium.com/distributed-replication-single-leader-replication-part2-e6f35e727d1c

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Ritesh Dalvi

Senior Software Engineer in Adobe with Masters Degree in CS. A programming enthusiastic who like to write about tech and software development.