Remove master/slave terminology #813
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"Master/slave" terminology is offensive and not technically descriptive. Throughout the tech industry, the term "master/slave" is being replaced with contextual, more descriptive alternatives, as per the following company style guidelines:
This guide used the term "master/slave" in the context of database replication. This PR changes all uses of "master/slave" to "primary/replica". Engineers should not be using the terminology "master/slave" in interviews today, not only because it is uninclusive but also because many of the companies interviewing them are likely to disallow it.
This PR does not tackle the terms "master-master" or "multi-master", since I think there is more ambiguity around accepted alternatives for those terms. I concede it's a bit odd to have "primary/replica" terminology beside "master/master" terminology, but I felt the topic may warrant some discussion. If there is a desire to change those terms and an alignment around alternatives, I can make those changes as well.