receivereplica method implements one side of anti-entropy; explore how gossip protocols (see gossip-protocol/) would drive the replication that feeds itDate: 2026-05-29
Time: 14:08
I'll work from the observations we have, which include the grep matches showing the signature and test usage.
vector-clocks/vectorclock.py:receive_replica — Read the full implementation to see how vector clock comparison determines accept/conflict/discard outcomesmerkle-tree/merkle_tree.py:diff — The O(log n) tree comparison that would identify which keys need replication between gossip peersleaderless-replication/dynamo.py:antientropyrepair — The simplified version of background sync that skips gossip coordination entirelyhinted-handoff/hintedhandoff.py — How triggerhandoff replays buffered writes when a node recovers, completing the failure-recovery loopgossip-data-piggybacking — How a real system (e.g., Cassandra) extends SWIM gossip to carry data digests alongside membership state, collapsing the membership and divergence-detection layersgossip-carries-membership-not-data — GossipNode.receive_gossip merges heartbeat counters and node status only; it never exchanges application key-value datareceive-replica-is-passive-endpoint — receivereplica is the receiving side of anti-entropy; nothing in the codebase calls it automatically — tests simulate the call manuallyanti-entropy-layers-are-decoupled — The gossip, merkle-tree, vector-clock, read-repair, and hinted-handoff modules are independent implementations with no cross-imports; composing them into a full anti-entropy pipeline is left to the integratormerkle-diff-enables-efficient-sync — MerkleTree.diff compares two trees in O(log n) by short-circuiting at matching subtree hashes, providing the divergence detection that would feed receivereplica with only the changed keysgossip-failure-detection-gates-replication — GossipNode.getalivemembers returns the liveness set that anti-entropy, read-repair, and hinted-handoff all depend on to decide which nodes to contact