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While the blog does use "primary", people are saying "master"/replica, much like how redis refers to their architecture[0]. In fact, ctrl-f "slave" only brings up your comment.

0: https://redis.io/docs/manual/replication/

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"Master", however, is as prevalent as "primary" in this discussion "slave" is the implied counterpart.

It would be better if we completely abandoned that terminology.

It wouldn't be better, it would be arbitrary

Out of all the comments that use the term "master" as of right now[1-5], the first three specifically use the term "replica" while the 4th and 5th use the verb "replicate" (in the present tense and past-tense).

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31341392

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31341661

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31340318

4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31340169

5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31342145

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