#Distributed Systems

Building a Distributed Job System with gRPC: Leader Election, Progress Streaming, and Failure Recovery

A retrospective on rebuilding our RMI computing cluster with gRPC, a JAC-based flood election, live progress streaming, and failure recovery.

October 12, 2026 7 min read

Building a Distributed Job System with Java RMI: Peer Discovery, Leader Election, and Thread Safety

How our team of four built a Java RMI cluster that discovers peers, elects a coordinator, and runs data-parallel jobs safely across threads.

September 28, 2026 9 min read