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InfoQ: How Fly.io Replicates SQLite Globally in less than 1 Second

Fly.io ditched old-school Consul and Raft for their insane global SQLite replication needs, finding it just couldn't handle hundreds of nodes without breaking a sweat. So, they cooked up Corrosion!

This Rust-powered marvel uses clever CRDTs and a gossipy SWIM protocol to sync machine states lickety-split across the globe, all without a bottlenecking central leader. It's a sweet lesson in building resilient, speedy distributed systems!

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