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Leader Election Split-Brain in Multi-Region Control Planes : Retry, Timeout, and Circuit-Breaker Composition Failures
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Problem Breakdown
The defect class here is composition: individually sensible timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers interact multiplicatively when layered across a call graph. When a multi-region control plane loses its inter-region consensus link, both datacenter partitions run leader election concurrently and each promotes itself to…
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