Loose Clustering

Learn about loose clustering, the server’s role in loose clustering, and how instances communicate in such clustering techniques.

Individual servers in loose clustering

Systems should exhibit loose clustering. In a loose cluster, the loss of an individual instance is no more significant than the fall of a single tree in a forest.

However, this implies that individual servers don’t have differentiated roles. At the very least any differentiated roles are present in more than one instance. Ideally, the service wouldn’t have any unique instance. But if it does need a ...