ReferenceIncidentsEra 5 · Series CNetwork partitionRegions lost contact. Calls between them timed out, and leader-based writes diverged.What happens#Regions lost contact. Calls between them timed out, and leader-based writes diverged.How to prevent it#A consensus store keeps one leader. Fence the old leader to end it.The postmortem opens the first of these that you do not own yet:Consensus databasesEngineering terms#Fallacies of distributed computingNetwork partitionQuorum