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I was reading an article about youtube in it's early years http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture and came across the term Replica Lag. What exactly is that?

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Replica lag is the delay between updating a database on the main server and having it replicated to all other servers.

In a heavily loaded database system it can take some time for updates to be processed by all the other servers.

Grant
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