Seth Pellegrino on "In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm" (Raft)

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This month's paper is "In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm" by Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout and will be presented by Seth Pellegrino.
PDF:
https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
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Seth Pellegrino on "In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm" (Raft)