Last night's failover left both database nodes accepting writes for four minutes. Finance wants to know which orders are real.

Split-brain writes are a fencing failure first and a data problem second. Freeze writes, read the divergence boundary from replication positions, and let the payment ledger arbitrate reality.

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Split-brain writes are a fencing failure first and a data problem second. Freeze writes, read the divergence boundary from replication positions, and let the payment ledger arbitrate reality.

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