beginner · intensive bootcamp
Replication Concepts Boot Lab
3 weeks · 5 hrs/week
Build intuition for replication topologies used in SaaS and internal platforms. Labs include measuring lag, promoting replicas in a toy cluster, and writing runbooks teammates can follow.
What ships in this outline
- Toy cluster with scripted failure injections
- Lag measurement dashboards explained
- Read-your-writes vs eventual consistency scenarios
- Runbook template used in on-call handoffs
- Mentor AMA on multi-region basics
Outcomes
- Draft a failover checklist for a two-node setup
- Explain replica lag to a product manager without jargon
- Identify unsafe read patterns on followers
Lead mentor
Lin Okada
SRE turned database mentor; previously owned incident reviews for query regressions.
FAQ
We stay engine-level; you map lessons to RDS, Cloud SQL, or self-hosted.
Yes — containers provided; no personal cloud spend required.
Consensus protocols for geo-distributed writes are overview-only.
Experience notes
“Promoting the follower in the lab felt scary in a good way. Runbook template now lives in our repo.”