Reference
Glossary
The real engineering terms behind the game: what each means at work, and what it does in Quorum.
Quorum models real systems, so its words are real words. Each term has the meaning you would use at work, and what it does in the game.
Performance#
Reliability#
Observability#
Data#
- At-least-once delivery
- Cache stampede
- Cache-aside
- CDC (change data capture)
- Connection pooling
- Consistent hashing
- Eventual consistency
- Fan-out on write
- Hot key
- Inverted index
- Leaderless replication
- N+1 query
- Object storage
- OLTP and OLAP
- Point-in-time recovery
- Quorum
- Raft
- Read replica
- Read-your-writes consistency
- Replication lag
- Sharding
- Synchronous replication
- Transactional outbox
- Write-through cache