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I was thinking parent/child would be a better fit, but upon further thinking about it, leader/follower is pretty good. It is also a bit more distributed friend

I was thinking parent/child would be a better fit, but upon further thinking about it, leader/follower is pretty good. It is also a bit more distributed friendly, in that you can follow a new leader or switch. Where parent/child, master/slave are more locked. It is a bit silly though to change, in that human history has had slavery throughout history and to this day. Better to know about the problems than to overlook them. Also, throughout history, slavery wasn't always on racial lines, it was usually class based or wealth/monarchy based.

zeroflow 12y ago
It also wouldnt be a good fit. - Master / Slave systems are typically locked in. One slave if a database system can only be a copy of one master and cant just switch freely between masters. - Leader / Follower is coupled to loosely in my opinion. When i hear leader / follower i'm more thinking of a system where the followers follow the state of the leader (e.g. if the database goes down, the web frontend is shutting down / displaying an static error / ...) [sarcasm] - Parent/child could be offensive to people who cannot have kids or whose kids have died! Have you thought about THEIR feelings aswell? [/sarcasm]